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Magic Leap Lifts the Curtains (A Little) (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the shrouded-in-secrecy dept.

Magic Leap just announced a preview of its software development kit and "creator portal," which will offer resources for people who want to build for its yet-unreleased Magic Leap One headset. You can now download a preview build of the Unreal or Unity engines, designed for what Magic Leap dubs "spatial computing." This is one of Magic Leap's juiciest announcements, marking one of the secretive company's first steps toward establishing itself as an open platform. It also may be a sign that the company is finally close to releasing hardware. The Verge reports: The creator portal touts a set of tutorials, a community for technical support, and a "Magic Leap Simulator" that will presumably help people preview apps before they get a headset. The Magic Leap One was announced late last year, and it's supposed to be released this year, but we still don't know details about the exact date or pricing. The portal says that a marketplace called "Magic Leap World" will launch soon.

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  1. Missed out by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    These guys totally missed out. VR was so 2016. We have moved on to Blockchain and AI. Sorry, but no IPO for you!

  2. How about instead saying OPENS ITS TRENCHCOAT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because that is some ugly junk.

    Is Gen. Mattis on this board, too?

    1. Re:How about instead saying OPENS ITS TRENCHCOAT!! by slew · · Score: 4, Informative

      FYI: Magic Leap board members: Sundar Pichai (Google), Jack Ma (Alibaba), Paul Jacobs (Qualcomm)

      Of course you have to remember, Magic Leap is not really a traditional tech company, it is a marketing company (actually more of an independent record label / AR content company) that stumbled upon some piezoelectric fiberoptic scanning technology (via Prof Eric Seibel UW) and is now attempting make it work using some kind of custom silicon photonics device. Their goal is to apparently license the resulting technology for use by content developers (part of their marketing company roots).

    2. Re:How about instead saying OPENS ITS TRENCHCOAT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Unsophisticated investors like Google, JP Morgan, and Alibaba?

      check out the full list.

      Your skill in anal diction is truly astounding.

  3. Re:You missed out. by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

    Either way, their SDK says it has "C" APIs. What is this, 1995? We all use Rust and Go now.

  4. BeauHD Friggin Twit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    How much did Magic Leap pay you to publish this?
    Magic Leap Sucks it Colleagues and staff dry.

    https://www.geekwire.com/2018/...

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

    https://variety.com/2016/digit...

    https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

    http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/1...