This new game shows what the world might look like after the death of the smartphone

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Smartphones aren't going anywhere anytime soon. It'll be another decade (or more) before your digital life is projected into the world around you, viewed through seemingly magical augmented-reality glasses.

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You know the kind: The Google Glasses of the world, worn like sunglasses, which appear to "project" stuff like email or directions directly into reality when they're actually just overlaying your vision with digital information.

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"Back to the Future 2" features augmented-reality glasses from JVC, which is hilariously anachronistic and adorable.

For many folks in Silicon Valley, augmented reality is an inevitable evolution of the current smartphone-obsessed world we live in. That begs the question: What will that world look like? A new Xbox One and PC game called "Tacoma" offers a vision into that worryingly-believable future.

Let's take a look.

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