I've released a White Walker Game of Thrones before it reaches Winterfell

Spoilers coming for Game of Thrones Season 8.

When the white walker walked towards me, staring at his blue steel look on me as he cleared the bursts of a wall of ice that had just collapsed between us. I sent him away with a ruse similar to that of Arya.

I stabbed her chest with a dragonglass dagger – so, yes, it was not Valyrian steel, just like that of Arya. In addition, I did not jump through an icy mist with the stealth of a trained killer. My duel was punctuated by my screams of terror and my attack consisted for the most part in repetitious clumsiness of my weapons in the general direction of my opponents. In addition, this wight and White Walker were digital appearances unable to put my finger on the finger.

But other than that: like the real thing.

My confrontation with the Game of Thrones undead was courtesy of Magic Leap mixed reality glasses on Friday, on the sidelines of Tribeca Film Festival. Although Magic Leap is no stranger to the Film Festival circuit, this experience – called The Dead Must Die and developed with HBO – takes a different turn. Rather than a riff on Shakespeare or the kind of avant-garde setup that introduced Magic Leap to the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, it is grafted on the current obsession with pop culture.

But this type of mass appeal is crucial for Magic Leap and mixed reality, a nascent technology that creates digital creations at the heart of your physical environment. Even if you've never heard of Magic Leap, you can be sure that many people have not gathered to try The Dead Must Die here. (And the flock they have.) When I tried to register for the first time, I was told to wait an hour and a half to wait. The person in charge of the list said that the waiting times were systematically from 45 minutes to one hour.)

When I first set the Magic Leap helmet, firewood infernos on either side of me went from inert to crackling flames. I lit a torch with one of them, arming me for the wight that burst quickly through a wooden crate to rush towards me as if I were spilled into the Dragon Post.

After finishing with the fire of my torch, the wall in front of me crackled like ice, breaking and collapsing to reveal a white Walker. He went through the hole in the wall and headed towards me with the same threatening calm as that of the series – you know, that self-confidence that comes from being insensitive to the threat for thousands of years. # 39; years.

I had already picked up a dragonglass dagger on the corpse of another wight, so my stabbing shots in his chest – I mean, my feints and Arya type jabs – have turned him into ice that breaks.

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– Joan E. Solsman (@joan_e) April 29, 2019

The Dead Must Die plays on practical tips to amplify the dread. A physical prop is spread on the floor, making small automated movements with his arm to hint at hidden signs of life that will appear on the set in a mixed reality. The wooden crate jumps and vibrates loudly into reality before the wight bursts into mixed reality.

In addition to Tribeca, the mixed reality experience is available in AT & T flagship stores in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco, which started earlier this month. The Dead Must Dies will soon be available in stores in Los Angeles and Dallas, the company said, but would detail no plans to extend the availability of the experience.