Without exception, every researcher in this field that I’ve spoken to has been acutely aware of these divergent paths and claims to be working toward a decentralized model—for many reasons, including the chief one that a decentralized and open platform will be richer and more robust. Clay Bavor, vice president of AR and VR at Google, says, “We want an open service that gets better each time someone uses it, like the web.” Augmented reality is the technology underpinning the mirrorworld; it is the awkward newborn that will grow into a giant. “Mirrorworlds immerse you without removing you from the space. You are still present, but on a different plane of reality. Think Frodo when he puts on the One Ring. Rather than cutting you off from the world, they form a new connection to it,” writes Keiichi Matsuda, former creative director for Leap Motion, a company that develops hand-­gesture technology for AR. Hideyuki Kagawa and his associates believed that killing Yui would close the Mirror World, or at least force Shiro to do so.

Super Mario Bros. 3 has a level with doorways that lead to a mirror version of that level where the enemies are normal-sized (normally they're huge because the level is in Giant Land) Strangely, potted plants regularly appear inside the Mirror World, somehow being immune to its destructive properties. kuni is usually translated literally as "country", but is understood in fictional media to mean "land" or "world" (i.e. the Japanese version of Alice in Wonderland translates "Wonderland" as ふしぎの 国 くに fushigi no kuni). Another app on my phone, Google Lens, can also see discrete objects. It is already smart enough to identify the breed of a dog, the design of a shirt, or the species of a plant. Soon these functions will integrate. When you look around your living room with magic glasses, the system will be taking it all in piece by piece, informing you that here is a framed etching on the wall and there is four-­colored wallpaper, and that this is a vase of white roses and this is an antique Persian carpet, and over here is a nice empty spot where your new sofa could go. Then it will say, based on the colors and styles of the furniture you already have in the room, we recommend this color and style of sofa. You’ll like it. May we suggest this cool lamp as well? We reflexively recoil at the specter of such big data. We can imagine so many ways it might hurt us.

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Eventually this melded world will be the size of our planet. It will be humanity’s greatest achievement, creating new levels of wealth, new social problems, and uncountable opportunities for billions of people. There are no experts yet to make this world; you are not late. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal has an actual Mirror cheat. Levels can be played as mirror images of themselves.

A 3D game based on Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension has the playable characters going through two dimensions on each level. Notably, throughout Kamen Rider Ryuki, several mysteries concerning the Mirror World were left unexplained, such as how the Kanzaki siblings gained access to the Mirror World, its mysterious inhabitants, and its inconsistent wish-granting capabilities.

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In an alternate timeline, the Mirror World had a very different history that did not directly mention Yui. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer combines this with Dark World, launching the player into Shadow Plane versions of some locations in the main world. Dragon Age: Origins has a few different examples of this, depending on which origin the player chose. Dwarf nobles, dwarf commoners, mages, and city elves will all revisit their homes about one year after they left and much has happened in the interim, while Dalish elves will revisit the same forest they grew up in, but with a different clan of Dalish after their own clan left. The future in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Certain actions such as planting seeds in the past have effects on the future timeline.

Going Down's map 5, "Time Warp"; you keep moving between the same laboratory in the present day and years in the future. Haven City in Jak 3 has almost completely been taken over by enemies, but the layout of areas is the same as in the second game.. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past had the Dark World, where a puzzle required you to drain water from one world and use the fact it would fill the other.Legacy of Kain: Defiance often had the two protagonists exploring the same locations while separated by five hundred years. The Spectral Realm may also qualify. World 6 in Purple is a set of five (not including 6-6 and Final Destiny) stages replicating the looks of previous worlds with neons. Stage 6-1 is an almost exact copy of stage 1-1. The heavy atoms in cameras will continue to be replaced with bits of weightless software, shrinking them down to microscopic dots scanning the environment 24 hours a day. The mirrorworld will be a world governed by light rays zipping around, coming into cameras, leaving displays, entering eyes, a never-­ending stream of photons painting forms that we walk through and visible ghosts that we touch. The laws of light will govern what is possible. Zoovania" in the Transylvania world in Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters. If you visit during the day, it's a normal zoo. Visit at night and it's changed; most notably all the animals turn into monsters. You can toggle day and night from outside the zoo.

Luigi's Mansion had the Hidden Mansion, which, in the PAL version only, was a mirrored version of the Normal Mansion made more difficult. A level in a video game which is an altered version of an area you were in earlier. Sometimes you're visiting the same world in different time periods — be they separated by days, months, years, decades or centuries. Other times, you're visiting another version of the area in an Alternate Universe— maybe even a Bizarro Universe. Hanke says that despite the many other new possibilities being opened up by AR, Niantic will continue to focus on games and maps as the best way to harness this new technology. Gaming is where technology goes to incubate: “If you can solve a problem for a gamer, you can solve it for everyone else,” Hanke adds.In 2016, GE recast itself as a “digital industrial company,” which it defines as “the merging of the physical and digital worlds.” Which is another way of saying it is building the mirrorworld. Digital twins already have improved the reliability of industrial processes that use GE’s machines, like refining oil or manufacturing appliances.