It’s been over a year now since Microsoft unveiled the stunning Minecraft HoloLens demo at E3 2015. More than any event before the release of Pokémon Go this summer, that Minecraft demo revealed the true power and potential behind augmented reality. But a year later, with Pokémon Go now the biggest gaming hit in years and a virtual reality version of Minecraft about to come to the Oculus Rift, the HoloLens version still seems as far from fruition as ever. Alas, with that demo, the future poked its head into the present—but the future still hasn’t arrived.

Give Us Minecraft HoloLens Alongside Minecraft Oculus Rift

The big news this mid-summer is that Minecraft is coming to the Oculus Rift, or more precisely that Minecraft for Windows 10 will support the Oculus Rift. That support is coming as a free update within the next few weeks, so if you’ve got an Oculus Rift, it’s definitely something worth checking out. Minecraft Pocket Edition is also available on Gear VR.

Minecraft on virtual reality sounds like a truly different experience than the core game, at least in terms of how it feels, and the game’s official site says as much. It’s also one of the first really big, in-depth games to get official VR support on this scale, so it’s a big moment for the emerging technology. The future of virtual reality and augmented reality is getting ever closer to becoming the present.

And yet Minecraft HoloLens still eludes us. The E3 2015 demo was shockingly, amazingly cool—but it also wasn’t really a realistic representation of what the technology can actually do in normal settings. That is far more limited—the current version of the HoloLens has a quite restricted field of vision and you need the headset to actually see the augmented reality and holographic 3D. It’s generally not as versatile as the demo led us to believe. Like the Pokémon Go trailer, the Minecraft HoloLens demo is aspirational. It’s what the technology could and would become, but not what we actually have yet. Augmented reality is truly an exciting feature, and Pokémon Go proves that it works and gamers really are interested in it. But it’s still not totally ready for primetime.