--- description: Video has surfaced of a gamer playing Halo 5: Guardians on Microsoft's HoloLens headset and an Xbox One. title: Check Out This Crazy New Way to Play Halo 5 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt442d280b7f1f11d9/698869ad524fc0009ddf52a7/halo-5-guardians-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Check Out This Crazy New Way to Play _Halo 5_ by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2015 4:48 PM CUT  Microsoft by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2015 4:48 PM CUT It’s axiomatic to console gaming that you can’t readily schlep your TV screen around. But what if your display could pick up and follow you about? This YouTuber demonstrates exactly that. Using one of Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets and an Xbox One, we may eventually be able to turn away from the physical screen on which we’re playing [_Halo 5: Guardians_](http://time.com/4077354/halo-5-guardians-review-a-mediocre-story-with-terrific-multiplayer/ "undefined"), and continue on a high fidelity virtual display suspended by nothing. It’s eerily reminiscent of the plot conceit in Stephen King’s second _Dark Tower_ series book, _The Drawing of the Three_, where strange door-like portals to other worlds hover over a beach, then follow the protagonist wherever he goes. In this case, the user’s able to reposition the screen using a simple pinch-and-drag gesture. As if that’s not enough, [check out this related video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LTr187rgwY "undefined") of someone doing more or less the same thing with YouTube. **Read more:** [TIME’s Best Inventions of 2015](http://time.com/4115398/best-inventions-2015/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4132694/halo-hololens-augmented-reality-xbox-microsoft/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4132694/halo-hololens-augmented-reality-xbox-microsoft/"},"headline":"Check Out This Crazy New Way to Play Halo 5","datePublished":"2015-12-02T16:48:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:07:02.679Z","description":"Heads up, Master Chief","url":"https://time.com/4132694/halo-hololens-augmented-reality-xbox-microsoft/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games","Microsoft","YouTube","Virtual Reality","augmented reality","hololens"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt442d280b7f1f11d9/698869ad524fc0009ddf52a7/halo-5-guardians-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt442d280b7f1f11d9/698869ad524fc0009ddf52a7/halo-5-guardians-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"halo-5-guardians-1","caption":"","creditText":"Microsoft","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4132694/halo-hololens-augmented-reality-xbox-microsoft/","name":"Check Out This Crazy New Way to Play Halo 5"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Best Inventions of 2015","description":"Every year, TIME picks the 25 best inventions of the year. Here are five of our favorites.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/00y0bxBE/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-19T12:02:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/00y0bxBE.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4132694/halo-hololens-augmented-reality-xbox-microsoft/","duration":"PT2M12S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4132694/halo-hololens-augmented-reality-xbox-microsoft/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```