It's taken six years and $1.9 billion, there's at last a product to go along with Magic Leap's augmented-reality smart glasses hype.
And if the company's demo videos that have been running YouTube are anything to go by, it's gonna be mind blowing. But we haven't been able to see what the actual unit will look like — until now.
Magic Leap on Wednesday updated its website to reveal ... Magic Leap One: the headset and accompanying gear.
The Lightpack (left), Lightwear (center) and Control. (Magic Leap)
Rolling Stone's Brian Crecente went to the company's headquarters in Fort Lauderdale to talk with Magic Leap creator and head honcho Rony Abovitz and get a first-hand look (and test) of the Magic Leap One .
Unlike the opaque diver's masks of virtual reality – which replace the real world with a virtual one – Magic Leap's device, called Lightwear, resembles goggles, which you can see through as if you're wearing a special pair of glasses. The goggles are tethered to a powerful pocket-sized computer, called the Lightpack, and can inject life-like moving and reactive people, robots, spaceships – anything – into a person's view of the real world.
Check out this demo put out by the company back in April:
Business Insider reports Magic Leap has raised $1.9 billion in funding from the likes of Google, Alibaba, and Singapore's Temasek Holdings.
While Abovitz wouldn't reveal a ship date or price, he did tell Rolling Stone the first version undoubtedly will ship in 2018.