The DeanBeat: Playing Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders on the Magic Leap One

Not many people have tried out the Magic Leap One Creator Edition. After all, the augmented reality glasses cost nearly $2,300. I’ve tried it out, and so the first thing I headed for was the games. I showed my kids Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot, which was a cute but short experience.

But Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders, the 360-degree shooting game from Weta Workshop, is the real deal. It’s a taste of what the next generation of AR gaming is all about. But like any pioneering work of entertainment, it’s also got some warts. I figure everyone wants to know what it’s like to play a game in AR, considering Magic Leap has raised more than $2.3 billion and Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz has hyped it as enabling users to live “10 years in the future.”