Minecraft is coming to HoloLens, and it turns you into a god of blocks

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft is about to turn your world into a virtual toy.

Minecraft is coming to the Windows HoloLens augmented reality device (and competing take to the Oculus Rift, Sony’s Project Morpheus, and Valve’s virtual reality headsets), which is launching later this year. The publisher showed off how the game will work during its Electronic Entertainment Expo media briefing this morning. Minecraft on Microsoft’s augmented-reality device is compatible with the PC version, and you can play it just like normal. That means the HoloLens will create a video window, and you can play the game through with a controller. But it doesn’t stop with that. HoloLens also enables you to re-create your virtual world on a surface like a table. This enables the player to look down over the whole world from a god-like position.