Watch Microsoft's Eye-Popping Hololens Demo Using Minecraft Hold your pickaxe, partner. Microsoft just blew Minecraft clear out of the sandbox. Way out.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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Ever fantasize about playing Minecraft in 3-D, anywhere you want? On the hood of a car? On the palm of your hand? On an undulating pool of liquid?

With a Microsoft Hololens strapped to your face, you could, as evidenced in a mind-blowing demo of the heads-up display at the E3 video-game conference this week. Feast your eyes on what we're talking about for yourself at the 2:25 mark in the incredible video below. You've never seen Notch's pixelated brainchild like this before:

Related: Lego Has Finally Created a Minecraft Competitor

Minecraft is all about building and breaking down barriers, then building them again, however you want. Thanks to the insane virtual reality and hologram genius behind the Hololens, you'll soon be able to create block-filled simulated worlds wherever you want, too.

Pretty rad, right? Kudos to Microsoft for thinking way, way, waaaay out of the sandbox. Build on. The future looks bright.

Related: How Microsoft's Hololens Could Boost the Race to Colonize Mars

Kim Lachance Shandrow

Former West Coast Editor

Kim Lachance Shandrow is the former West Coast editor at Entrepreneur.com. Previously, she was a commerce columnist at Los Angeles CityBeat, a news producer at MSNBC and KNBC in Los Angeles and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times. She has also written for Government Technology magazine, LA Yoga magazine, the Lowell Sun newspaper, HealthCentral.com, PsychCentral.com and the former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Coop. Follow her on Twitter at @Lashandrow. You can also follow her on Facebook here

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