The secretive, extremely well-funded augmented-reality startup Magic Leap has spent several years working on its technology for blending crisp digital images with the real world. It says that technology will eventually be made into a headset. It hasn’t divulged all that much since I got an in-depth look at the company late last year, but it recently opened up a bit to let Wired take a peek at what it’s building.
In an extensive piece about Magic Leap and virtual- and augmented-reality technology, Wired shares that it was able to wear a Magic Leap headset to check out things like a hovering steampunk robot drone (presumably the same one I saw during a visit to the company’s suburban Florida office, though I was viewing it through a large demo unit on a cart), as well as “human-size robots” that walked through walls and tiny people wrestling on a tabletop.
There’s still no mention of what the headset looks like—an engineering prototype I viewed suggested a chunky pair of sports-like glasses with a connected battery pack—nor a release date or pricing. The company, which has thus far raised about $1.4 billion from investors, has previously said it will be in the range of consumer mobile devices.
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