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Watch Conker the Squirrel Run Around and Swear, Now on HoloLens

The squirrel who previously took on a singing pile of poop is now working with augmented reality.

The Microsoft HoloLens unit is a revolutionary holographic headset that will allow users to play video games augmented reality, and the company has apparently chosen a foul-mouthed squirrel with an affinity for alcoholic beverages to debut it.

Microsoft announced its HoloLens developer kit on Monday along with three games: Fragments, RoboRaid, and Young Conker, a riff on a character from British video game developer Rare who previously faced an opera-singing pile of poop and other vulgar adventures.

Developers on the project said they worked with Rare to bring the "much-beloved" property into mixed reality, where holographic lenses are used to project the multi-dimensional virtual game on top of the real world.

The game tailors the play experience to the room you're in, responding to changes in physical surfaces and the size of the space. For example, if there is not a lot of floor space where you're playing, Conker will run more on the wall. Moving a table in the room will change the course of Young Conker's path. The HoloLens platform does this through spatial mapping technology, scanning the environment to identify objects through patent matching.

The HoloLens kit costs $3,000, and Microsoft will begin shipping them to developers on March 30.