It features a total of 180 pages and drawings detailing the look, functionality and uses for the device. In January, an extensive patent not only showed how the augmented reality headset could look and work, it also provides a number of example uses. The company won't say how it will shrink its device, but chief executive Rony Abovitz has confirmed that the headset will be a glasses-like system.ĭespite the secrecy surrounding the system, it has been deemed exciting enough for Google to have invested around $500 million. The company appears to be aiming to fit its technology into a chunky pair of sports sunglasses wired to a square pack that users can place in their pocket.īut the prototype that Ms Meltz used was fixed on 'unwieldy scaffolding'. Other drawings show a man watching sport on this TV, with scores, player ratings and other related content appearing on virtual menus in front of him. In one drawing from the patent, a mother and child are in a supermarket, and a virtual version of their list appears on the trolley. While other sensors could recognise finger commands such as focus, copy, select, back or cancel, and right clicks. Sensors can also track the wearer's location and position, to make sure images are overlaid on the real world as accurately as possible.īuttons on the visor could act like a 'home screen', to take wearers to menus, for example. This model is created using a database of objects and 'object recognisers'. It connects to a network, which then connects to a so-called 'passable world model.' In terms of design, the headset resembles skiing goggles, connected to a battery pack. The patent was filed in July 2014 by chief executive Rony Abovitz, and was awarded earlier this week. Other investors included Qualcomm, the world's leading phone chipmaker, Andreessen Horowitz, KKR, and Legendary Entertainment. In October, Magic Leap announced it had raised $542 million in funding, led by Google.
'Or walking around New York City with a virtual tour guide, the sides of buildings overlaid with images that reveal how the structures looked in the past.' 'As I see crisply rendered images of monsters, robots, and cadaver heads in Magic Leap's offices, I can envision someday having a video chat with faraway family members who look as if they're actually sitting in my living room while, on their end, I appear to be sitting in theirs. 'Magic Leap had to come up with an alternative to stereoscopic 3-D – something that doesn't disrupt the way you normally see things,' she wrote.
Rachel Metz, writing for MIT Technology Review, was able to test out one of the larger systems which will compete with the likes of Facebook's Oculus Rift and Microsoft's HoloLens.
The patent shows that, in terms of design, the headset resembles skiing goggles Rachel Metz, writing for MIT Technology Review, was able to test out one of the larger systems. Until now, very few details about the Florida-based technology had been revealed.
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