{"id":23339,"date":"2016-03-09T23:46:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T07:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/heres-magic-leaps-covert-vision-for-its-augmented-reality-headsets"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:03:13","slug":"heres-magic-leaps-covert-vision-for-its-augmented-reality-headsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/heres-magic-leaps-covert-vision-for-its-augmented-reality-headsets","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Magic Leap\u2019s Covert Vision for Its Augmented Reality Headsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-magic-leaps-covert-vision-for-its-augmented-reality-headsets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may have heard of Magic Leap, future purveyors of \u201ccinematic reality\u201d (augmented reality) headsets. This is a company without a single commercial product, and yet it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/02\/02\/ar-startup-magic-leap-raises-793-5m-series-c-at-4-5b-valuation-led-by-alibaba\/\" target=\"_blank\">worth $4.5 billion<\/a>. Many are invigorated by the company\u2019s potential, but a tour of its most recent, 160,000-word, 350-page patent application \u2014 especially with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/12165-apple-s-top-lawyer-will-tell-congress-tuesday-encryption-is-a-good-thing\">current events<\/a> in mind \u2014 could suggest other, less exciting applications for the emerging technology.<\/p>\n<p>No one really knows what to expect from the company: by design, it\u2019s mysterious. (Out of silence comes allure.) We\u2019ve seen two videos, we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/11019-the-9-craziest-job-openings-at-magic-leap\">investigated its job postings<\/a>, and we know that wealthy organizations love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/10949-why-magic-leap-could-be-worth-every-penny-of-800-million\">throwing money its way<\/a>. But we do have access to Magic Leap\u2019s patent applications, and it published its most recent one in late January.<\/p>\n<p>People are <em>excited<\/em> about VR and AR. With reason, too: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/11906-leap-motion-shares-two-enthralling-unreleased-demos-of-its-vr-tech\">demos<\/a>, previews, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/11676-leap-motion-s-orion-explodes-the-virtual-reality-experience\">new releases<\/a> we get to watch are striking. The games we imagine playing in the future are enthralling. The mere idea of a <em>virtual<\/em> or <em>augmented<\/em> world, either distinct from or mixed with the actual (boring, depressing, what-have-you) world, is enough to invigorate all of our wayward souls.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/12176-here-s-magic-leap-s-covert-vision-for-its-augmented-reality-headsets\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/12176-here-s-magic-leap-s-co...y-headsets<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of Magic Leap, future purveyors of \u201ccinematic reality\u201d (augmented reality) headsets. This is a company without a single commercial product, and yet it\u2019s worth $4.5 billion. Many are invigorated by the company\u2019s potential, but a tour of its most recent, 160,000-word, 350-page patent application \u2014 especially with current events in mind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56312,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339\/revisions\/56312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}