{"id":24821,"date":"2016-04-19T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T20:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/magic-leaps-latest-demo-is-like-tripping-balls"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:28:07","slug":"magic-leaps-latest-demo-is-like-tripping-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/magic-leaps-latest-demo-is-like-tripping-balls","title":{"rendered":"Magic Leap\u2019s Latest Demo is Like Tripping Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magic-leaps-latest-demo-is-like-tripping-balls.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>VERY nifty!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wired just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/?p=1999666\" target=\"_blank\">a giant feature<\/a> on Magic Leap, the lavishly-funded, and very <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-magic-leap-is-secretly-creating-a-new-alternate-rea-1660441103#_ga=1.193946925.1606256242.1460027476\">secretive<\/a> mixed reality startup that we know almost nothing about<em>. <\/em>Professional thoughtfluencer Kevin Kelly got impressive access to the startup and reveals some new details about what the hell they\u2019re doing. There\u2019s a headset! And it is capable of what you see in the video above, which is like tripping, if LSD made you hallucinate your calendar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GmdXJy_IdNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The demo, which Magic Leap just posted to YouTube, is a look at what your morning might be like if you\u2019re living in the company\u2019s mixed reality future. It\u2019s not a very lofty future, but I daresay it\u2019s a useful one. Though I\u2019ve never had a morning in which I intensely study topographical maps of Everest or ethereal jellyfish, it is nice to have a clean heads-up display in front of your face, full of notifications and information. The graphics are very high fidelity\u2014especially compared to Magic Leap\u2019s mixed reality cousin, Microsoft HoloLens.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/magic-leap-s-latest-demo-is-like-tripping-balls-1771765420\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/magic-leap-s-latest-demo-is-like-tripping-balls-1771765420<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VERY nifty! Wired just published a giant feature on Magic Leap, the lavishly-funded, and very secretive mixed reality startup that we know almost nothing about. Professional thoughtfluencer Kevin Kelly got impressive access to the startup and reveals some new details about what the hell they\u2019re doing. There\u2019s a headset! And it is capable of what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62003,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions\/62003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}