“Golly.” Well, I thought more than “Golly.” Mostly “Golly.” But this was insane. When I went and focused on it, the monster on the table changed and went fuzzy. It was so naturally fit into the environment. I hadn’t realized it was there to begin with. Then, in the back of the room, a much larger monster stood up and waved at me. It was looking just like it was real, on the desk. It was this blue monster, and I could control it with an Xbox controller. There was a monster running around the desk in front of me. Once I joined I had to buy everyone in the company that blu-ray, because apparently nobody’d seen it.
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Right away I’m thinking of that movie Brainstorm. I stuck my head into this machine that was about the size of a refrigerator. There was this mixed reality demo of robots actually running around the whole scene. We think of augmented reality as things that are just on top of the world.
We think of mixed reality as the placement of objects in the real world as you interact with objects in the real world. GamesBeat: Can you describe this a bit for our audience? You aren’t using the term “augmented reality”?ĭevine: Mixed reality. I’ll come to Florida.”Ī tiny, photorealistic elephant dances in someone's hands on the Magic Leap website.Ībove: A tiny, photorealistic elephant dances in someone’s hands on the Magic Leap website. I said, “That is impossible! You can’t do that! You can’t insert characters into environments with occlusion and things. Rony Abovitz, the CEO, called up and said, “I think I need a games guy.” “Okay? Where are you?” “Florida!” “Not interested.” Then he calls up again and has me sign the NDA. What was attractive about Magic Leap?ĭevine: The fact that I thought it was impossible. GamesBeat: You seem to like to be on the cutting edge. Helped launch the iPad with some very cool games and get people to think about touch as an interface.Īfter that I kind of retired, walking my dogs on the beach in the morning, having my own little company, doing the occasional talk and so forth. Do you want to say your game’s better on a Nintendo DS?” Encouraging people to use this marvelous touch device that had this incredible touch screen and make games for that. I was the guy that was like, “If you’re putting a virtual D-pad in your game, you’re saying your game is better on the Nintendo DS. I’m gonna get killed for that.įrom there I moved on to Apple and helped games at Apple. Went from there on to Microsoft, where I was the lead designer and lead writer on Halo Wars, the best of the Halo series.
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Moved on to id Software as the lead designer on Quake III, which kicked off internet gameplay a little bit. You can debate whether it’s Myst or 7th Guest that was the best. Helped kickstart the whole CD-ROM industry. Made a game called The 7th Guest, 11th Hour. I moved to the states and started a company called. I very quickly moved on to work at Atari for a little while. If you remember the resolution of the TRS-80, you remember it was black and white and didn’t have a lot of pixels.
You all know me, right? I’ve been making games since the 1970s. GamesBeat: For people who may not know, tell us a bit about your career in games. Image Credit: Michael O'Donnell/VentureBeat Graeme Devine of Magic Leap prefers the term "mixed reality" instead of "augmented reality."Ībove: Graeme Devine of Magic Leap prefers the term “mixed reality” instead of “augmented reality.” Other leading thinkers like sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson have also joined the company. But when he saw a demo of it in Florida at Magic Leap’s headquarters, he was hooked. Magic Leap’s goal is to create animations that are indistinguishable from real life and to insert game characters and gameplay into our everyday lives.ĭevine didn’t think the tech was possible. But it is one of the startups that has ignited a lot of interest from gamers and game developers about the frontiers of gaming. Magic Leap, which raised more than $542 million from investors led by Google, hasn’t fully described how it will create “cinematic reality” and other experiences with its glasses or when it will ship them. He is now the chief creative officer at Magic Leap, which is creating “mixed reality” glasses that overlay animations onto the real world. Graeme Devine has had a storied career in games, working on projects such as The 7th Guest at Trilobyte, Age of Empires 3 at Microsoft, and cool game technology Apple. Graeme Devine, the chief creative officer at Magic Leap, at GamesBeat 2015 with Dean Takahashi.
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