{"id":24886,"date":"2016-04-21T23:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T06:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/patents-remind-us-that-magic-leap-is-powered-by-tiny-projectors-not-magic"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:59:21","slug":"patents-remind-us-that-magic-leap-is-powered-by-tiny-projectors-not-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/patents-remind-us-that-magic-leap-is-powered-by-tiny-projectors-not-magic","title":{"rendered":"Patents remind us that Magic Leap is powered by tiny projectors, not magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patents-remind-us-that-magic-leap-is-powered-by-tiny-projectors-not-magic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/04\/magic-leap-vr\/\"><i>Wired<\/i> has published<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/04\/went-inside-magic-leaps-mysterious-hq-heres-saw\/\">some articles<\/a> that give us the closest look yet at the ambitious, enigmatic augmented reality company called Magic Leap. They\u2019ve left us with both a lot of fascinating possibilities and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/19\/11459498\/five-burning-questions-about-magic-leap-after-wireds-huge-profile\">a lot of questions<\/a>, because most of Magic Leap\u2019s technological explanations are couched in the language of either science fiction or, well, magic. As poetic as \u201c[talking] to the GPU of the brain\u201d and \u201cdreaming with your eyes open\u201d sounds, this is probably the clearest and most interesting description of Magic Leap\u2019s work in the piece:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/21\/11477934\/magic-leap-augmented-mixed-reality-optical-patent-filings\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/21\/11477934\/magic-leap-augmen...nt-filings<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, Wired has published some articles that give us the closest look yet at the ambitious, enigmatic augmented reality company called Magic Leap. They\u2019ve left us with both a lot of fascinating possibilities and a lot of questions, because most of Magic Leap\u2019s technological explanations are couched in the language of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886","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=24886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56238,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886\/revisions\/56238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}