FAQ

I also wrote this XR Hurdles Doc for you guys! 'Also, for your convenience, here is Magic Leap’s' Fact Sheet

As well as this YouTube playlist with virtually all Magic Leap relative videos, in chronologic order as they came out. (For the most part.)

* Welcome to the Magic Leap Wiki
* You can find more official Magic Leap information at https://www.magicleap.com/en-us

Welcome to the Magic Leap Wiki! We’re a collaborative community passionate about spatial computing. This is a resource that everyone has access to, and anyone, including you, can edit! Click the edit button at the top of any page to get started. See you in the MagicVerse 😎

* How can I get started? Well, you're in the right place! Besides absorbing the info on this Wiki, you can also contribute to it to increase your understanding further, learn more by becoming a Magic Leap Developer and following the developer documentation, and joining the conversation with your fellow spatial computing enthusiasts in the various Magic Leap Communities.
* What is Magic Leap?

Magic Leap is a company that creates spatial computing products and is leading the conversation around spatial computing. Currently, they have a consumer product for sale in the United States called Magic Leap One: Creator Edition. They're reportedly working on an advanced kind of display technology, called the Photonic Lightfield Chip. This article by u/TheGoldenLeaper a.k.a. u/Noah\_A\_S , a.k.a. u/B7U3C50SS  can tell you a lot more about Magic Leap. (Currently on u/u/TheGoldenLeaper )

Additionally, there are a few things like left to explain like is there one famous that tried magic leap? Yes. Hideo Kojima. There are also these Immersion/Inspirations from which the PDF magic leap's marketing team put forth as ideas for designs for the UI.

Magic Leap also did open up early beta access to developers earlier in 2017. As well, as have their Founder, CEO, and President Rony Abovitz, tell the press that 'Magic Leap is not that far away' at eMergeAmerica's 2017 Conference, where Rony Abovitz also stated that the pricing would not be Kindle pricing but not unaffordable. The full presentation can be found directly below.

* FULL PRESENTATION

* They run on Unity3D & Unreal4 Engines More from /u/Malkmus1979 HERE on a thread started by /u/audelk about MS HoloLens VS. ML As a matter of fact, it turns out that:

ML is working on shipping a consumer product while also exploring other collaborations like this (Cline has publicly said he's had the demos). The logistics of a mass attendee venue performance with brand new tech, especially in a high volume scenario, are not trivial. However if those are managed it is a really good way to introduce the technology to the right demographic.

* As again /u/mugofpaul  - Paul Reynolds, former Magic Leap senior technical director would have you know. ;)

Also, the fact, that there was the small reveal if so revealing of the photonic-light field chip which led to the conclusion that there was a 'no pixel' method being used to display images. As it was talked about multiple times on Reddit.

* EDIT: Magic Leap has finally updated its website and it's time for some news. First, let's start with some important posts though.

* HERE a google doc listing all of the important topics and important job postings!

What is the Goal of Magic Leap?

Magic Leap's Goal is (to):

Technology in service of humanity.

* "Gadgets that help people stay present in the real world, while simultaneously letting them reap the benefits of high-powered, always-connected technology. A combination of everything the world offers, and everything the computing world offers in a way that’s more ambient, more seamlessly integrated, that doesn't take you out of the world."
* An easily wearable, lightweight pair of glasses that helps to inform you about the world or change the world around you. It has to be aware of you and the world you inhabit: it has to sense the geometry of objects and understand what these objects are, how they are used, and so on. And it allows digitally generated objects to not only exist in the physical world but actually interact with it.
* Image quality: the light field is all of the light bouncing off all of the objects in a world. When you take a picture, you’re capturing a very thin slice of that light field. The eye, however, sees much more of that light field, allowing a person to perceive depth, movement and a lot of other visual subtleties. Light fields contain massive amounts of data but not all of that is used by the brain all the time to generate a model of the world. Therefore a digital light field signal only needs to consist of a portion of the data. Magic Leap’s light-field photonics generate digital light at different depths and blend seamlessly with natural light to produce lifelike digital objects that coexist in the real world.
* A label for the concept: Spatial Computing. Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality are unfit because of how they are used for other devices but technically they are not wrong. Virtual Reality, which creates everything you see with computer-generated images, is possible within the supported Field of View of the glasses.
* The Spatial Computing interface includes multiple more natural and intuitive input modes including voice, gesture, hand, head pose, and eye-tracking instead of outdated point and clicks interfaces.
* The glasses would replace or complement smart-phones as an all-day computing device and could potentially replace laptop and desktop computers, TVs, and provide an interface for the Internet of Things.
* Another key concept: Magic Leap is trying to make hardware and software that inspires people to be creative and become part of a wider creative community. Every person has creative potential. They want to move people out of being passive consumers.

To continue further:
An easily wearable, lightweight pair of glasses that helps to inform you about the world or change the world around you. It has to be aware of you and the world you inhabit: it has to sense the geometry of objects and understand what these objects are, how they are used, and so on. And it allows digitally generated objects to not only exist in the physical world but actually interact with it. Image quality: the light field is all of the light bouncing off all of the objects in a world. When you take a picture, you’re capturing a very thin slice of that light field. The eye, however, sees much more of that light field, allowing a person to perceive depth, movement, and a lot of other visual subtleties. Light fields contain massive amounts of data but not all of that is used by the brain all the time to generate a model of the world. Therefore a digital light field signal only needs to consist of a portion of the data. Magic Leap’s light-field photonics generate digital light at different depths and blend seamlessly with natural light to produce lifelike digital objects that coexist in the real world. A label for the concept: Spatial Computing. Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality are unfit because of how they are used for other devices but technically they are not wrong. Virtual Reality, which creates everything you see with computer-generated images, is possible within the supported Field of View of the glasses. The Spatial Computing interface includes multiple more natural and intuitive input modes including voice, gesture, hand, head pose and eye-tracking instead of outdated point-and-click-style interfaces. The glasses would replace or complement smart-phones as an all-day computing device and could potentially replace laptop and desktop computers, TVs, and provide an interface for the Internet of Things. Another key concept: Magic Leap is trying to make hardware and software that inspires people to be creative and become part of a wider creative community. Every person has creative potential. They want to move people out of being passive consumers.
What is The Goal of Magic Leap?

Answer

What is the Time-frame for this? What has it been like?

* In order to achieve the goal, several technological breakthroughs are necessary for miniaturization and power efficiency. Magic Leap is trying to build as much as possible in-house and only for the purpose of their spatial computing platform: from optics and chips to the operating system.
* The computer vision system needs to be optimized for outdoor use and all weather conditions just like self-driving cars. It needs to do tracking, face and object recognition, depth estimation, lighting, and so on at the same time all the time - on a mobile device. A solution could be to do all of these things with a single Deep Neural Network.
* Other research areas include wave-guide technology for a larger Field of View, more focal planes, variable optics, meta-materials (nonlinear optics), small form-factor fiber displays, spatial-light modulators to control phase properties of light, volumetric video live streams.
* There will have to be compromise, in the next five years compared to the goal.

One Magic Leap Mystery Solved-Former Senior Dev Paul Reynolds Confirms Unity & Unreal

After many months of endless speculation over the mysterious augmented reality platform Magic Leap, software engineers…

Paul Reynolds Confirms ALL Game Engines For Magic Leap On an Early 2015 Voices of VR Podcast #96

Magic Leap, Looking to Support ANY Game Engine (2015)

Question: Wait! There's a Military contract for Ultra-High Resolution Scanning Fiber Display for HMDs!?

Answer - Yes, here's the info:
ABSTRACT: Magic Leap, Inc. proposes to develop a novel full-color, ultra-high-resolution microdisplay for pilot Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) incorporating scanning optical fibers. The single-mode optical fiber preserves the coherence of the light source, enabling a diffraction-limited spot to form each pixel--enabling a pixel pitch less than 2.7 microns for high resolution in a small footprint. The proposed solution will address the resolution, frame rate, color depth, contrast and field of view (FOV) requirements for next-generation HMDs. BENEFIT: Magic Leap anticipates that the proposed Phase I SBIR will result in a preliminary design for a color, ultra-high resolution microdisplay based on our Fiber Scanned Display technology. The preliminary designs developed in Phase I will lead to proof-of-concept prototypes in Phase II. These prototypes will be used to further study the performance of the design concepts, and allow us to analyze in greater detail the real-world performance characteristics of the displays. A high-pixel density Fiber Scanned Display will enable high angular resolution over a wide field of view in pilot head-mounted displays, enhancing situational awareness. In addition to working with the DoD to address defense applications, Magic Leap is working to commercialize low cost, compact, high field of view, high-resolution consumer wearable display systems.

* The information listed above is at the time of submission.

These were some of the slogans from Magic Leap, Inc.

*Magic Leap is essentially a way to bring us closer together again as a species, by taking away and killing off the ‘screen market’ which is slowly but surely diverging us, as a species. And in doing we get to place these extremely useful smart glasses (The Magic Leap One) That basically allow to see whatever we want whenever we want (or need to) and display that information in a way that best suits us.*

* *“Think of it like dreaming with your eyes open.“*
* *Or… “they’re there minus the atoms”*
* INFINITE REALITIES AWAIT
* FREE YOUR MIND

Words of the day:

* Photonic Light-field Chip
* Optical Waveguide
* Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal

*What is the Photonic Waveguide Chip?*

*Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz describes the light-field chip as a “three-dimensional wave… like component that has very small structures in it, and they manage the flow of photons that ultimately create a digital light-field signal.” Wired has photographed this mysterious chip, but Magic Leap is still refusing to detail exactly how it or the technology around it works. Magic Leap won’t even say whether its technology will be used in goggles or what they’ll look like. One employee describes Magic Leap as “like dreaming with your eyes open.”*

*It might also be worth mentioning that the source also misquoted him. he said “wafer-like” not “wave-like”.*

- ***"Mixed Reality is the mixture of the real world and the virtual worlds so that ONE understands the OTHER. This creates experiences that cannot possibly happen ANYWHERE ELSE."​​​​​​ - Graeme Devine from @magicleap***
​YouTube Playlists

Tweet Stream

Important Twitch Streams

Cool, so what are the Other Magic Leap Web Profiles?

404 Error Pages

Well We know about the hardware, now.. so what about the software?

In other words I'm asking....

Are there any Partnerships and known developers?

* **Heru | Healthcare**
* **SentiAR | Healthcare**
* **Nvidia | Cloud XR**
* **PTC | Vuforia AR Enterprise Suite**
* **BBC | BBC Earth Micro Kingdoms: Senses App**
* **Brain Lab | XR Healthcare**
* **Insight Enterprises | Sales**
* **MPH | Sales**
* **AMD** **| Computer Vision & Perception / Chipset**
* **ANIMA RES | Spatial HealthCare App**
* **Unreal Engine | Intensely Graphical 3-D Game Engine**
* **Unity | Graphical 3-D Game Engine (Not as powerful as Unreal Engine)**
* **Mozilla MR | WebXR blog.mozvr.com**
* **Onshape | Cloud-based CAD**
* **Twilio | Avatar Chat**
* **Vizzario | Vision Performance, Analytics**
* **Weta Workshop | Weta Gameshop | Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders and DLC**
* **NBA and Turner Broadcasting | App with 2D and volumetric video**
* **Framestore 'The Age of Starlight' by Brian Cox, Kevin MacDonald, Tim Webber | And Again | Related Tweet**
* **Lucasfilm | ILMxLAB | Star Wars IP**
* **Niantic | Location-based games | Potential IP: Pokemon, Harry Potter**
* **Warner Bros | Investor | Potential IP: Ready Player One, Harry Potter, The Matrix etc**
* **Madefire | Digital Comic Books including content developed by Magic Leap in-house**
* **Royal Shakespeare Company |Alternative Link | Media Research Limited at Goldsmiths University of London, University of Portsmouth & NESTA | Research for Mixed Reality Theatre**
* **8i | Volumetric Capture**
* **Wingnut AR | Storytelling and interactive entertainment**
* **Fable | Interactive storytelling**
* **Felix & Paul Studios | Cinematic virtual reality**
* **MPC Advertising | VFX for film, advertising, entertainment**
* **EON Reality | AR/VR Platform**
* **Schell Games | Education, entertainment games | Potential IP: Toontown**
* **Flarb | Game Design With Unity3D**
* **WITHIN | AR/VR content platform**
* **Warpin Media | Strategy, tech, concept, production for clients**
* **Groove Jones | Studio specializing in 360 media commercial productions**
* **Meow Wolf | Art collective and production company**
* **NorthSouth Studios | Full service multimedia studio**
* **The Mill | Audiovisual music app Tonandi feat. Sigur Ros**
* **Amazon | Shopping**
* **Alibaba | Shopping**
* **Wayfair | Shopping**
* **Cisco Systems | Networking hardware**
* **Axel Springer | Digital Publisher**
* **Farm | Healthcare Products | Some more Information,Tweet |Article**
* **Technical Solutions | Healthcare Products**
* **NASCENT | Nanotechnology Research**
* **Molecular Foundry | Nanotechnology Research**
* **CoMotion | UW Startup Project**
* **Extality |Company Website**
* **Rebel Camp |Company Website**
* **AT&T | Pioneering Technologies,Unmatched Network, Content Platform, And Vast Customer Ecosystem, 5G**
* **String |Company Site**
* **Bionic Eye | Long Term Research Project by Joseph Rizzo, Outside Adviser To Magic Leap | 0:48 Time-Stamp**
* **Nintendo |Related Thread**
* **TriggerGlobal | Specializes Trans-formative or disruptive digital, social, ad tech, and marketing tech businesses.**
* **NomTek Mobile**
* **Air NZ | Tourism, Airliner**
* **Next 15 Marketing Group**
* **DoD / The Department Of Defense | Awarded Magic Leap, Inc. A patent & A Contract / Partnership**
* **Disney | Entertainment, Movies, Cruise Liners, Real Estait, Theme Parks, Augmented Reality, Iconic Character Space, Etc...**
* **Sigur Ros | Tonandi**
* **Rovio | Angry Birds Media**
* **Monocle Society | | Story Telling Gaming**
* **Square Slice Studios | Comics, Comic Book Movie / T.V. / ART, & Culture |Alternative Link**
* **Headspace Studio | Entertainment, Subscription Service**
* **Imaginarium Studios / Andy Serkis |Alternative Link | Entertainment**
* **Wacom | Tablet Company**
* **Jabil | Supply Chain Manufacturing**
* **Medical Realities | Leader in Medical Healthcare**
* **Medivis**
* **Game Of THrones / HBO**
* **NTT DOCOMO | Invester and partnership to bring Spatial Computing to Japan**
* **AwesomenessTV | And Hulu & ViacomXR (ViacomCBS - scroll down to see) & R | Spatial Experience From Turner Broadcasting Network**
* **Immersion Analytics | Analytics Visualizer. For the first time, you can use Magic Leap One to interact with your data for free-form, multi-dimensional exploration**
* **Out There | Immersive Musical, Only In Mixed Reality**
* **Future Sight AR | Katana App For Construction Workers**
* **BadVR SeeSignal From BadVR App For Data Visualization**
* **DOW JONES | DOWN JONES APP for Magic Leap World**
* **Kubold | Dinosaur Kit**
* **These Sleepless Nights | Documentary On Homelessness To Raise Awareness**
* **ICP | PuzzleAR App By ICP & OnTop Studios​​​​​​ For Magic Leap World**
* **CNN | CNN News Channel For Magic Leap**
* **SK Telecom | Creates next-generation immersive media environment utilizing Magic Leap’s devices, such as premier spatial computing platform, the Magic Leap One, and SKT’s 5G network.**
* **Sketchfab | WebXR Support**
* **H&Moschino Clothing Line H&M & Moschino & Warpin Media, Media which is known for making magic with immersive technology 3-way partnerships.**
* **Abcomrents | Press Release | Magic Leap One Mixed Reality Rental Service**
* **UM | FIRST 'MAGICVERSE' CAMPUS**
* **Spotify | World Class Music Service**
* **Google Cloud  | Google Cloud services**
* **WSJ / Wall Street Journal | wall | Introducing the Wall Street Journal Stock Market on Magic Leap**
* **Medivis  | Human Anatomy In XR**
* **Arvizio | Data Visualization**
* **HyperLoopTT  HyperLoopTT & Nomtech Mobile Two-in-One Partnership**
* **Boston Consulting Group |Website URL**
* **BNP Paribas | WEBSITE URL,  Real Estate**
* **Deloitte | Website URL, Audit, Consulting, Advisory, and Tax Services**
* **JetBlue Vacations | Website URL Vacation Packages**
* **McLaren | Website URL | Automobile Industry**
* **Skender | Website URL, Construction**
* **Taqtile | Spatial Learn & Assist / Productivity Tool**
* **Food52 | Spatial Recipies**
* **EXA | Spatial Music**
* **Magic Lines | Parkinson's Treatment**
* **Giant Army | Purveyor Of Universe Sandbox On Magic Leap**
* **MetaNautVR | Creates Gadgeteer On Magic Leap**
* **Monocle Society | Weave: Story Telling Dice Game For Magic Leap One**
* **MEDICALHOLODECK | Medical Virtual And Augmented Reality Applications**
* **Versus | Smart Spatial Spaces & Domains**
* **Nexus Studios | "From Annie, Emmy & Oscar-nominated animated film, to BAFTA & Cannes Grand Prix winning branded content & highly acclaimed innovation, we create award-winning film & interactive experiences across every imaginable platform"​​​​​**
* **PRELOADED | Education**
* **Resolution Games | Angry Birds AR & Glimt**
* **Xennial Digital | Education**
* '***Aesthetic Interactive | Entertainment'***
* **Obsess | Immersive E-Commerce**
* **Alien Trap | Immersive Creator Tooling/Tools**
* **roOoMy | Leaders In CGI & 3D Modeling**
* **Immersiv Analytics ​​| Spatial Analytical Analysis**
* **Spatial | Collaboration & Productivity**
* **Spatiate | Digital Art App By The #LeapSquad! (Now The #LeapNation) <3**
* **AtlasV​​​​ | Spatial Film Experiences**
* **VIM AEC | Architecture - Home Construction**
* **Affirm | ​​​​​​Financial lender of installment loans for consumers to use at the point of sale to finance a purchase.**
* **Sennheiser | In-Ear Audio Ear-Buds for Magic Leap One**
* **Funomena | Creator of XR Fairy Tale for Magic Leap One**
* **Ringling College| Ringling College Educational Partnership W/ Magic Leap, Inc.**
* **Grant Morrison | Grant Morrison Signs on to Write for Magic Leap One Augmented Reality Headset**
* **Visoric | Digital Twins**

Apps ('Special Rooms' Opened by 'Physical Keys' as an example shown in patents)

Can you name some?

**Examples of Apps:**

**(5 Mile Test, Toothbrush Test, The Halo Test, Innovation, Use Mixed Reality [World Meshing, Spatialized Audio, Controls] )**

**The 5 Mile Test says that if you're not home and you're five miles away, would you (need to) turn around and go get your device?** **People think this is the most important**

* **Vroom! Racing**
* **Impulse — Movement (Learn to Dance, Walk, Yoga, Stand Still)**
* **Catastrophe!**
* **Secret Layers**
* **Room Advisor**
* **Toon Town**
* **Gadgeteer**
* **Tag**
* **Grimoire**
* **Sensibility**
* **Dragon**
* **Tick, Tick Boom!**
* **Earliest Demos: Gerald Goes Bananas**
* **Virtual Assistant**
* **Ghost Girl**
* **Alibaba E-commerce**
* **Star Wars w/ ILMxLAB (Multiple Experiences Confirmed)**

**Who has tried it?**

* **Kevin Kelly**
* **Mike J Mika**
* **Andre Iguodala**
* **Ricky Gervais**
* **Ernest Cline**
* **Shaq**
* **Rachel Metz**
* **Felecia Hatcher**
* **David M. Ewalt**
* **John Markoff**
* **Scott Dadich**
* **Brian Crecente**
* **Beyonce**
* **Benedict Evans**
* **Saudi Prince**

**How much will it cost?**

* Starting Price Tier: $2,295
* Magic Leap 2 Will Cost More Than the Previous Model:
	+ https://bit.ly/3ro1yqu

**Company Locations**

**On registries.opencorperatees.com On opencorperatees search**

**Outside Directors**

**Observers**

**Founders**

**Memberships**

**Licenses**

**Acquisitions/Subsidiaries**

**Early Investors**

**Post-Launch Investors**

* **Two undisclosed buyers Harris & Harris Group sold its shares to. Quite possibly the following at this link.**
* **Here's The Full List It's usually missing one or two investors.**
* **Video from ADIT Ventures talks about IPOs on the site, which I find interesting**

AR / VR Vergence accommodation forces multiple views as seen on this photo the Magic Leap One although still highly speculative

Some of the first features of the first version of the SDK before shipments roll-out (yet still) listed here by Paul Reynolds, Former Magic Leap employee

In 2010 the building of the studio for Sparkydog & Friends and recording of the album led to the formation of Magic Leap Studios, a production company that would focus on cool indie music and animated/CG feature films based on a graphic novel. He traveled to New Zealand to Weta Workshop and struck up a relationship with. Magic Leap was incubated at Weta, Abovitz said.

September 2011, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell invited Abovitz to his GoldenEye resort in Jamaica, the former estate of author Ian Fleming. Abovitz saw people around him looking at their phone screens instead of the stunning natural surroundings. “I thought, ‘I don’t want that anymore.’ And so I realized computing had to change and it had to go inward.” "The world is your new desktop."

In May 2014, Alan Eustace, a senior Google computer scientist, visited. Eustace, a University of Central Florida grad, is better known for setting, in 2014, the record for the highest altitude free fall jump from 25.74 miles up in the stratosphere. Abovitz says Eustace sent an “epic email” to important people that Magic Leap had something “insanely awesome.” “He’s why we get funded,” Abovitz says.What grants were given out? And to Whom?

Wait a minute there were grants!? Yes, sir! Here, they are!

* Everyone who got a Grant HERE so far:

**Grants**
**ANIMA RES | Giant Army | Kubold |**
**Medicalholodeck | Nexus Studios |**
**PRELOADED | Xennial Digital**
**Funktronic Labs | Metanaut |**
**Monocle Society | ONTOP |**
**Resolution Games**
**BadVR, Inc | Future Sight AR |**
**Taqtile, Inc | VERSES Labs**
**Aesthetic Interactive | Felix & Paul Studios |**
**Within**
**Obsess | roOomy**
**Alien Trap | MINSAR**
**Immersiv | Spatial**
**VIMAEC**
**Immersion Analytics**
**Edge Lab**
**Atlas V**
**Magic Lines**

**Original FAQ From Reddit**

**History Of Magic Leap**

**Reddit Wiki Page For ML1, Specifically**

**Full Reddit Wiki Page for Magic Leap**