What will we be able to do with Magic Leap? Magic Leap is expected to offer a pretty good field of view, as normal glasses offer. Field of View: Hololens offers a 35º FoV, which doesn't provide, in my experience, a good user experience.Magic Leap will be connected to a portable computer that you attach to your belt. Hololens is bigger, has more weight, and has several visible projectors and cameras. Size: Magic Leap being much more convenient to wear.There are three main differences between these devices: Perform volumetric mapping of the space and tracking personal and hand/fingers movement.Project virtual reality objects right into your eyes.To sum up, Magic Leaps features a lot of complex optics and several tiny projectors and sensors, in order to: These sensors are also on top of the spectacles, keeping a reasonable size for the glasses. Pico-sensors are also used to read the position of the pupils, through the lights that comes back from them. Magic Leap has developed pico-projectors, that send light rays from the top of the spectacles that reflect through them in a manner that go directly to your pupil, displaying there 3D Virtual Reality objects.Īlso, the device uses advanced optics to send light rays outwards in order to do volumetric mapping of the space, and has pico-sensors that read the reflected light that is coming back to the googles. Oculus Rift or HTC Vive can also do that in VR, but in this case, they use external sensors. Microsoft Hololens, the first serious MR device, can do that today. That means that you can actually walk around a virtual R2D2 to see it from different angles.Īs I say, other devices also track the movement. You can walk, or even bend down, and that will affect the perspective you have of 3D virtual objects. Magic Leap, as well as other MR and VR devices, tracks your movement around the room. Take a look at this Magic Leap video to see what I'm talking about. Thanks to that, virtual objects are visible or not, depending on if they are lying in front or behind a real object in the room. This technology performs a volumetric mapping of the space around you, so it knows the distance to solid objects surrounding you. Mixed Reality actually blends virtual and real objects, because it understands its surroundings. We have also seen this technology in Pokemon Go, though that app has a small taste of MR. It shows virtual objects on top of real images. You turned your head, and the small screen showed the same information. This content was fixed, no matter where you looked at. Google Glasses, launched 4 years ago, showed computer information on a small screen attached to the glasses. The difference between Augmented and Mixed Reality is simple. We call that Mixed Reality (MR), and it is an evolution from Augmented Reality. Magic Leap is a pair of glasses that is able to show 3D virtual reality objects, that blend with the real objects that surround you. According to Bloomberg, in 6 months they will ship the device to a reduced bunch of people. Two weeks ago, Magic Leap filed a patent with the design of their glasses, and that's the first time we have seen a design of their product, two years after whey published the first video about their project. Everything we know is that you will be able to experience things like this: Google, Qualcomm, and Alibaba have already invested $1.4 billions in it, but nobody knows what they are building. Magic Leap is the most secretive start up in the world.
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