Magic Leap has unveiled the Magic Leap One mixed reality glasses. The new wearable is only available as a “creator edition” for now, in other words, it won’t be available to the masses but to the creators who want to build new experiences using a mix of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Magic Leap is also set to provide open access to its SDK with all the relevant tools, documentation, and support in early 2018, while the Magic Leap One goggles will be shipped sometime later in the year.
The Magic Leap One goggles is set to come bundled with a wireless controller that offers “force control and haptic feedback” and enables six degrees of freedom (6DoF). The glasses are also expected to accept multiple input modes such as voice, gesture, head pose, and eye tracking.
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz invited Rolling Stone journalist Brian Crecente for an initial experience with its technology. Crecente writes that the demonstration dropped him into a “science-fiction world” where augmented reality was blended with the virtual reality – what is called mixed reality (MR).
Something also worth pointing out is that the goggles are said to have a separate low-powered processing unit that can have some machine learning capabilities and includes four microphones as well as six external cameras. There are also built-in speakers to produce audio while taking the users to the MR world.
Magic Leap is currently leveraging the funds received by companies including Alibaba, Qualcomm, and Warner Bros. in addition to the early support provided by Google to bolster the development of its MR technology that has been in the pipeline for a couple of years from now.
