Testing out a new augmented reality game is typically hard enough. From the beginning, you’re thrust into a world that sort of looks and feels like reality, but inherently operates on a slightly different set of rules. But when you’re forced to play the same game on what is essentially a prototype headset, the line between hardware and software starts to blur in strange ways.

Designer Abhishek Singh created a first-person augmented reality version of Super Mario Bros.' first level, which is very cool. Then he dressed up as Mario to test out his creation in New York City's Central Park. That's the dangerous bit.

We've already seen what Microsoft's HoloLens can do to Portal. Now, let's picture what it can do to Final Fantasy 14.

Why play Portal on a 2D screen when you can play it all around you in the real world?

The HoloLens is still miles away from knocking off VR in people's living rooms, but at least Microsoft can say they've got a big supporter in the military.

Picking up where Pokemon GO leaves off, Microsoft's Hololens delivers a new way of looking at the world.

Three months after Microsoft first opened orders for the development edition of its Hololens augmented reality headset, the expensive devices are still thin on the ground. We were invited by CSIRO's Data61 group to try one of the few Hololens units in Australia at the moment. Here's what we thought.

So we've got the HTC Vive. There's the Rift-powered Samsung Gear VR. The actual Rift. PlayStation VR. And StarVR, even though we haven't heard a great deal about that. And let's not forget Microsoft's HoloLens, even though that's a different technology altogether.

As it turns out, AMD are making a headset of their own -- but it's a blend of both worlds.

It looks like Fortune broke an embargo a little early today and released details on the first Microsoft HoloLens unit that humans can actually buy.

Video: This is how Microsoft wants you to consume the National Football League in the near future. With Hololens goggles, and pinching, and holographic Russell Wilsons (Russell Wilsi?).

Thanks to the immense social footprint of League of Legends, the most popular community idea for Microsoft's HoloLens was a spectator client for Riot's iconic MOBA. But it's something that's never going to happen, according to a response from Microsoft.

The HoloLens headset from Microsoft is the world's first untethered wearable that generates holograms before your eyes. It's been nearly a year since we first strapped a prototype to our faces, and as the tech goliath prepares to unleash a first batch of units to developers in the coming months, I was invited to check out just how far the technology has come. Holograms are here people -- and they're going to change your life.

For any new technology to get off the ground, there has to be plenty of developers excited to create content. And the best way to get developers excited is to show them that there's something the public wants.

As a result, Microsoft has reached out to the public to get ideas for their HoloLens augmented reality tech. What does the public want? What do they want beamed into their eyeballs in an easy and convenient manner?

Well, as it turns out, they really want to watch eSports.

Microsoft's HoloLens tech is impressive, but it's hard to get across what it looks like to people who aren't wearing the glasses when they're not, well, wearing the glasses. So the company whipped up this demo video to help.

Last night, we were given our first personal glimpse of Microsoft's augmented-reality device for Xbox One; the HoloLens. This wireless transparent visor creates the illusion of tangible objects in the real world by adding graphical elements to the player's surroundings -- imagine being inside Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and you've got a pretty good idea of how it all works. Over the course of an hour, we built Minecraft worlds on a table, shot at rampaging robots crawling through the walls and even stepped inside the Halo universe. So is this stuff truly game-changing? It just might be.

Minecraft is a game we've seen countless times before. And yet! The virtual reality demo showcased by Microsoft today makes the game almost seem brand new.

While working at Bioware, Casey Hudson made his name as the director of Mass Effect 3, though he left the studio in August last year. Today, Microsoft announced that he will be joining the company as its new creative director.

Microsoft has lost one of its developers working on the awesome-sounding "HoloLens" holographic headset to a tragic car crash. Local Seattle station Kiro TV reports that Mike Ey, a 30-year-old project designer for HoloLens, was killed in a hit-and-run accident over the weekend.

"It did remind me of . You kind of want to scream 'don't over promise these things.'" -- Designer Peter Molyneux of 22cans, talking about Microsoft HoloLens from his perspective as an early Kinect developer.