Wingnut AR Pest Control shows augmented reality can be silly

Wingnut AR showed off its first augmented reality app for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition. It was a pretty wacky game, as you might expect from the creative minds at Peter Jackson’s AR studio in New Zealand. Wingnut AR Pest Control puts you in the shoes of an exterminator, and it is narrated with dark humor by a guy with a British accent.

I saw the demo at Magic Leap’s coming out event, the L.E.A.P. conference in Los Angeles. Magic Leap certainly has a sense of humor, as it is selling its augmented reality glasses for $2,295. Apps like the Wingnut one won’t justify such a price for a pure entertainment device, but they are just the beginning of what Magic Leap hopes will be a burst of creativity around “spatial computing,” which blends the physical and digital worlds.