Streamer CaptainSparklez (Jordan Maron) has — in conjunction with Verizon — built a mobile phone in Minecraft that can actually browse the internet and make video calls.
In the video below, you can watch as he browses and makes video calls. Since Minecraft isn’t able to render high resolution images, everything on the in-game phone is appropriately blocky.
When making video calls, the receiver of the call doesn’t see Maron’s face, but instead sees his Minecraft avatar. To help explain how this was achieved, Verizon made the following statement;
In the world of Minecraft, almost everything is made of blocks. We’ve created a web application,Boxel, that translates real web pages and streaming video into blocks so they can be built on a Minecraft server in real time. Our server plugin uses Boxel-client to handle the communication between Minecraft and the real world as translated by the web application.
To have a go for yourself, head here.
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