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On December 9, 2015, Forbes reported on documents filed in the state of Delaware, indicating a Series C funding round of $827m. This would allow it to render only fully transparent objects which emit or reflect light, and may not allow virtual objects to occlude real objects. This suggests that the hardware can only add new light without blocking incoming light from the real world. The video showcases only quite bright objects superimposed over dark areas of the real world. It also shows virtual lights reflecting from a real table, which seem to be incorrectly placed in space, and therefore may suggest that the reflections are part of the virtual scene without interacting with the real world (similarly to "fake" shadows in early video games). The video suggests that virtual 3D objects can be occluded by real objects, which may be predefined geometry in the scene but led to speculation about 3D spatial mapping being used. While still not showing any hardware, the footage claims that it was filmed through a Magic Leap device without the use of special effects or compositing. On October 20, 2015, Magic Leap released actual footage of their product. The video includes augmented reality gaming and productivity applications but it was unclear if the video was actual footage using their technology or a simulated experience. On March 19, 2015, Magic Leap released a demo video titled "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap". Graeme Devine is their Chief Creative Officer & Senior VP Games, Apps and Creative Experiences. Science fiction author Neal Stephenson joined the company in December 2014.
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Richard Taylor of special effects company Weta Workshop is involved in Magic Leap alongside Abovitz. According to a researcher who studied the company's patents, Magic Leap is likely to use stacked silicon waveguides. īefore Magic Leap, a head-mounted display using light field had been demonstrated by Nvidia in 2013, and the MIT Media Lab has also constructed a 3D display using "compressed light fields" however, Magic Leap asserts that it achieves better resolution with a new proprietary technique that projects an image directly onto the user's retina. It had also been compared to Microsoft HoloLens. Ī November 2014 analysis by Gizmodo, based on job listings, trademark registrations and patent applications from Magic Leap, concluded that the company appeared to be building a competitor to the Google Glass and Oculus Rift that would "blend computer-generated graphics with the real world". In October 2014, when the company was still operating in stealth mode (but already reported to be working on projects relating to augmented reality and computer vision), it raised more than $540 million of venture funding from Google, Qualcomm, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among other investors. According to past versions of its website, the startup evolved from a company named "Magic Leap Studios" which around 2010 was working on a graphic novel and a feature film series, and in 2011 became a corporation, releasing an augmented reality app at Comic-Con that year. Magic Leap was founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010.
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Magic Leap One headset 2010–2014: Founding and secrecy On Jthe company announced their new CEO would be former Microsoft executive, Peggy Johnson. On May 28, 2020, Rony Abovitz announced that Magic Leap had raised $350 million in new funding and that he would be stepping down as CEO. On August 8, 2018, the Magic Leap One was made available in the United States through AT&T. On July 11, 2018, AT&T invested in the company and became its exclusive partner. In December 2016, Forbes estimated that Magic Leap was worth $4.5 billion. Magic Leap was founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010 and has raised $2.6 billion from a list of investors including Google and Alibaba Group. It is attempting to construct a light-field chip using silicon photonics. is an American startup company that released a head-mounted virtual retinal display, called Magic Leap One, which superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery over real world objects, by "projecting a digital light field into the user's eye", involving technologies potentially suited to applications in augmented reality and computer vision.