Now You Can Make Real Calls And Use Internet From Inside Minecraft
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Minecraft and Verizon have joined hands to build a smartphone right inside your Minecraft fantasy world. Using a web app called Boxel and its client-server plugin, you are able to make real calls and even browse the internet inside Minecraft.
As Minecraft and Verizon describe on their Github page – “now ordering a pizza from Minecraft is possible”. All thanks to a newly ‘installed’ cellphone in the game that could be used to browse the web and make video calls. Verizon has partnered with creative marketing agency BlocksWorks and Wieden+Kennedy to make this possible.
Before we tell you more about this collaboration, let’s take a look a the demo video:
Your Minecraft can do this magic with the help of a web app called Boxel that translates web pages and video into the real-time Minecraft blocks. To communicate with the outside network, the game uses a Boxel client-server plugin.
If you wish to learn the intricacies and see how things are done at the programming level, you should refer to the open source GitHub code . With this open source library, if you wish to write a little code, you can try it yourself.
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