Mercury

Magic Leap One: Creator Edition—Codename: Mercury

The Magic Leap One: Creator's Edition is the first-ever, publicly released, mixed reality headset from Magic Leap, Inc. in limited quantities on August 8th at 8:08 A.M. on 2018. It was also a much smaller iteration than the previous iterations of some devices we had seen before. Some such devices would have been the previous endeavors before the Magic Leap One.

* Tech Specs

50 degree
field of view
1.3M pixels
per eye
120Hz
refresh rate
16.8m
316g
76.9° diagonal field of view
f/2.0 aperture
Fixed focus
128GB
 RAM
8GB
IEEE 802.11a/g/b/n/ac, dual-band
Bluetooth 4.2
 Spatial audio
Built-in Stereo Speakers
2 x 3-axis Accelerometer
3-axis Magnetometer
3.5 hrs
USB-C PD 2.0 compliant (fast charge up to 1.5 A @ 5 V)

* Pricing:

Personal Bundle

Starting at $96 / month 0% APR with Affirm

* $2,295

What’s included?

Lightwear

Lightpack and Charger

Control and Charger

2 USB-C Cables

AC Power Cable

Wrist Lanyard

Cleaning Cloth

Shoulder Strap

Fit Kit (includes additional pads)

Developer Bundle

Starting at $117 / month 0% APR with Affirm

* $2,790

What’s included?

Lightwear

Lightpack and Charger

Control and Charger

2 USB-C Cables

AC Power Cable

Wrist Lanyard

Cleaning Cloth

Shoulder Strap

Fit Kit (includes additional pads)

Developer HUB

1 Year Priority Service Plan (RapidReplace and early access to software & events

Developer Plus Bundle

Starting at $138 / month 0% APR with Affirm

* $3,290

What’s included?

Lightwear

Lightpack and Charger

Control and Charger

2 USB-C Cables

AC Power Cable

Wrist Lanyard

Cleaning Cloth

Shoulder Strap

Fit Kit (includes additional pads)

Developer HUB

1 Year Priority Service Plan

1 Extra year of Priority Service (RapidReplace and early access to software & events)

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

The ML1 is the first iteration in a series of devices that will revolutionize the flow of technology in the modern age. It is like early access for all kinds of content creators, developers, and enthusiasts and optimized for use at home, workplaces, third places, and locations like theme parks or theaters.

It will ship in 2018. The SDK is already released. Pre-Order and pricing will come together. The price will be comparable to a premium laptop computer. At least initially, Magic Leap One won’t be in retail stores like Best Buy because it needs to be shown off in a way that helps illustrate the benefits of the system. Expect to get demos at events in the course of 2018.

ML1 (or the Magic Leap One, although sometimes just referred to as the prior for shorthand reference,) is a self-contained wearable, a combination of a headset, an external computer, and a controller. The headset has 4 cameras for 6DoF and hand tracking, 1 depth sensor, 1 photo camera, 2 speakers, 4 microphones to sense where the sound is coming from and a real-time computer vision processor. The headset is attached by a wire to an external computer for application processing, which you hang on your pants pocket. The controller also has 6DoF tracking, force control, and haptic feedback. The actual headset plus its final components will look not too dissimilar from these. And, the insides of the headset will be close to this and this.

ML1 uses an external computer and headband with “crown temple” design to reduce the weight on the head. The headset comes in 2 size options and the forehead pad, nose pieces, and temple pads can be customized to tweak the comfort and fit

Specs like CPU, GPU, RAM, internal storage or whether there is a card slot are still not public but said to be comparable to a laptop computer.

The battery life is similar to a high-end tablet for comparable experiences: watching movies, browsing etc. But it is shorter the more compute expensive the apps are.

Peripherals like a keyboard can be connected via Bluetooth. Internet connection via Wi-Fi.

The Field of View is much smaller than in VR headsets. But it is larger than the FoV of the Microsoft HoloLens. The details are still not public.

Magic Leap will take prescription details to build into the lenses for those who typically wear glasses.

ML1 uses 3D audio, which mimics the real world and relays distance and intensity. This allows you to hear exactly where a sound is coming from.

Privacy: the device with its sensors creates a user profile (geometry and mesh of the scanned rooms and what kinds of objects are in there; user habits; eye, head and hand tracking data; a voice model and so on) and stores and protects it in Magic Leap’s cloud solution. The user is explicitly notified of what kind of data an app wants to get access to and then the user gives or denies the permission. There is a tradeoff between privacy and the potential quality of experiences which, for instance, can use eye-tracking data to know when a user looks at an avatar.

Details of the device could change until it is released because the work on prototypes is continually advancing.

2D videos of demos have surfaced over the years but we don’t know how close they are to the capabilities of ML1:

* Magic Leap’s Fact Sheet:

* Next Generation

Optional wireless connection of the headset and external computer. The wireless connection will probably have reduced bandwidth and slightly higher latency compared to the wire but will be sufficient for some applications.

A bigger Field of View.

Probably some optimization for outdoor use and a smaller headset.

Different versions with different price points for consumers/creators. And probably versions for different occupations and for healthcare, as well as location-based experiences (theme parks, theatres, stadiums).

* 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

Benedect Evans

Saudi Prince

How much does it cost?

* Starting Price Tier: $2,295

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