Magic Leap is shipping its first headset this summer
July 15, 2018 | 11:27 |1979
Many IT companies in the world are dealing with production of glasses of augmented reality. The first full-fledged product of this kind in the market will be Magic Leap’s first “spatial computing” mixed reality headset, the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, which is coming this summer. The company announced the news in a live stream, narrowing down a previous statement that it would ship this year. However, Magic Leap still has not confirmed an exact date or a price, although the company has previously said it would cost at least as much as a high-end smartphone. Magic Leap has been slowly pulling back the veil on its headset. On its stream today, it revealed a few specifications on the headset. The Magic Leap One Creator Edition will be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra X2 processor with a Parker SoC consisting of three CPU cores (two ARM A57 cores and a Denver core for special use) and a Pascal-based GPU with 256 CUDA cores.Altyn ASHYROVA
The stream also showed an actual experience: a tech demo known as Dodge, where users have to dodge or block shots from a rock-throwing golem. The demo showcased how the Magic Leap One recognizes hand gestures, with users pinching and holding to place spawn points for the golem, or holding their hands up to deflect rocks. While it was not shown here, you can also apparently have multiplayer experiences with Magic Leap headsets, sharing an illusion between people wearing headsets in the same space.
According to Magic Leap, the headset can pick up specific static gestures or identify points of the hand. As Robert McGregor noted on Twitter, however, the demo did not seem to recognize when a user’s hand should logically be blocking parts of the image, lessening the “mixed reality” impact.
“We also didn’t get to see someone using the headset in real time, and it’s difficult to estimate the field of view from Magic Leap’s recording.” fans comments to Robert’s tweet.
An issue that has plagued Microsoft HoloLens videos. But with a shipping date that’s rapidly approaching, we should be seeing more of the headset soon and believe that manufacture keeps all the secrets deliberately till release time.
