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Here’s our first look at Minecraft Earth gameplay
July 27, 2025
Today during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), developer Mojang showed off its upcomingMinecraft EarthAR mobile game for the first time.
Apart from the traditionalMinecraftaspects of building and destroying, Minecraft Earth throws in a few wrinkles for the mobile crowd. For example, Mojang chief brand officer Lydia Winters demoed the game’s motion tracking. The feature lets your in-game avatar mimic your real-world movements.
The demo also included a feature unique to Apple’s ARKit 3: people occlusion, or the ability to show AR environments and objects behind people. Combined with ARKit 3’s new motion tracking, Minecraft Earth truly lives up to its name and literally brings people into its overlayingARworld.
People occlusion didn’t work flawlessly during Minecraft Earth’s onstage demo, however. The cutout looked laughably bad, though the motion tracking did a good job of keeping up with Winters’ movements. Also, ARKit 3 and Minecraft Earth are still months away from wide availability.
Still, the promise of Minecraft Earth and its social aspects give the game an opportunity to be very successful. The game’s closed beta launches this summer onAndroidandiOS, with players needing either aMicrosoftorXbox Liveaccount to gain access.
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