For years the Mixed Reality Startup Magic Leap has been keeping its investors and potential interested parties up to speed with small demos and vague announcements. In the making, nothing less than the ultimate mixing of virtual and real reality by photonic light field technology. At the end of last year a first headset (but only for developers) was actually announced for 2018. Now the company announced in a live stream that it should be ready this summer -- which means soon, because autumn is already approaching.
Also some more technical details were exposed, but only concerning the built-in computing power (an NVIDIA TX2 CPU/GPU module). Magic Leap still does not reveal how computer-generated content is inserted into the environment into which one looks through semi-transparent glasses for human vision. The approach ("photonic light field") is said to differ greatly from previous approaches.
A new little game demo was shown, in which a creature throws virtual stones, which the player has to fend off with his hand. This does not look direct "awesome" at first; the reactions are correspondingly restrained. MagicLeap CEO Rony Abovitz points out on Twitter that it is impossible to display the visual impression from the headset in a normal 2D video. So the world has to wait even longer for the Magic Leap experience, because even if the first headsets are soon to go to developers, this is just another step towards an official rollout.