After a long wait, Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality startup, finally unveiled its first headset. Releasing first as a ‘Creator Edition’, the so-called Magic Leap One AR headset is said to start shipping in 2018.
While the company has shown its tech to journalists and celebrities alike, all impressions are held within the strict confines of a NDA. We haven’t seen any hands-on pieces yet, but we’ll be updating this article as news breaks.
Here’s every image we’ve scrapped from their site so far.
The headset itself is going by the name Lightwear. It comes with a small mobile computer that’s clipped to the user’s waist, which Magic Leap calls the Lightpack. A 6DoF motion controller, which is dubbed simply ‘Control’, features a touchpad, “force control and haptic feedback.”
The Lightwear headset is said to be “[e]ngineered to be lightweight and comfortable for hours of exploration. We’ve combined our Digital Lightfield technology with environment mapping, precision tracking and soundfield audio to produce amazing experiences that feel natural.”
In September 2017, it was rumored Magic Leap could be shipping their first device to “a small group of users within six months,” and that the company would also take on a Series D investment led by Temasek Holdings Pte., a Singaporean venture capital firm. The rumor regarding its Series D turned out to be true, but we were left waiting on any word of surrounding the headset itself.
Info is still thin on the ground. We’ll be updating this piece as it comes in.
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