Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Watchers on the Wall attends ‘The Dead Must Die’ augmented reality experience!

Wights Beyond the Wall

Yesterday, I had the honor of attending the augmented reality experience The Dead Must Die, at HBO and Magic Leap’s invitation. My veredict?

It. Was. Amazing.

At the AT&T Flagship store in Boston, I was fitted with a Magic Leap One headset:

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I walked around a physical space outfitted like a wight-ridden King’s Landing while carrying a a control that, through the headset goggles, resembled a torch. I surveyed the space covered in digital frost and lit a wight automaton and later a CGI wight on fire.

Ice convalesced over the far wall of the room and my torch transformed into a dragonglass dagger, at which point the ice splintered into a portal to the Land of Always Winter. A White Walker charged at me through the portal and I had the pleasure of stabbing him in the shoulder and watching him dissolve.

The experience lasted for only two minutes but it was well worth the wait.

The AT&T store also featured costumes worn by Isaac Hempstead Wright as Bran…

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…Sean Bean as Ned Stark…

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…and Kristian Nairn as Hodor (who, as we just reported, was at the store earlier that day and whom I was unable to meet, unfortunately).

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There was also a clock counting down to the season 8 premiere.

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And, of course, there was an Iron Throne!

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The Dead Must Die experience is available through June 10 at AT&T Flagship stores in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. If you are within travelling distance of any of these cities, I can not recommend The Dead Must Die experience enough.

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