AT&T and Magic Leap take you inside HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’
The original article appeared in the Dallas Morning News on May 9, 2019 – https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2019/05/09/att-and-magic-leap-take-you-inside-hbo-s-game-of-thrones/
I have to admit — I’ve never seen an episode of Game of Thrones.
It is not that I don’t like a good story. I just didn’t jump on the bandwagon at the beginning, and I’m too far behind now to catch up anytime soon.
The last season of the show is upon us, and fans of the show should make an effort to get over to the AT&T store at 5100 Belt Line in Addison to see and try the Game of Thrones Magic Leap experience.
Magic Leap One is a set of glasses you wear that project computer images onto the world around you.
The glasses are connected to a small computer that you wear clipped to your belt.
It’s kind of like virtual reality, but you are not closed off from the outside world. The glasses let you see everything around you with the computer-created images superimposed. The experience is very cool.
I was invited to preview Magic Leap at AT&T headquarters a few weeks ago, and I spent an hour or so trying to wrap my head around what I was seeing.
Demos included a life-size Jordan Spieth standing a few feet away telling me about each club in his golf bag; a life-size rendering of a working airplane engine that I could take apart, even as the engine was running; a 3D furniture catalog that let me pull furniture into the room so I can see how it looks before I buy; and my favorite, a 3D Angry Birds game that let me walk all the way around the pig fort while trying to knock it down.
AT&T and its subsidiary HBO have teamed up to offer a Game of Thrones encounter called The Dead Must Die that “challenges the bravest of fans to confront a White Walker and lead the fight for the living.”
AT&T reps also told me that a DirecTV Now app will be available for Magic Leap that will enable the viewer to watch up to four different streams at once, as if they were each projected on a wall. I can see that being really handy during football season.
The Magic Leap One is available from AT&T for $2,295.
I realize that it’s expensive, and I’m not telling anyone to go out and buy one, but you should go try it out for yourself.