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

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

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.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.