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[UPDATE] Magic Leap Prototype Picture Leaked
The Magic has been Leaked (pun very much intended). In this week of leaks, the next company affected is the super secretive, extremely ambitious billion-dollar startup Magic Leap.
Yes! Below is your first sneak peek at the WIP device from the company that promised us this and that:
As the watermark suggests, the picture was delivered by an unnamed source to Business Insider, showing a user wearing a headset, a backpack-like setup with an exposed circuit board and processor, with the user apparently holding the battery pack in his left hand.
This early prototype was described to Business Insider as "PEQ0" (Product Equivalent). The photo is what the device looked like as of early January, and the source said there have been improvements to the prototype since then.
This obviously early prototype indicates something that it shouldn't be: not fully portable. Nevertheless, according to Business Insider's source, the company's board will see a demo unit with belt loops instead of a backpack that looks "more finished" during an important meeting next week.
Business Insider attempted to authenticate this information with Magic Leap but the company declined to comment by time of publication.
So what do you all think? Will Magic Leap deliver game-changing technology and experience as promised? Or is it well behind what it boasts to be, as The Informantion previously suggested?
[UPDATE]
Following the quick spread of the leaked images, the man behind Magic Leap, Rony Abovitz, himself took to Twitter to clear things up:
Hi everyone - the photo you are all excited about is NOT what you think it is.
— Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) February 12, 2017
The photo shows an @magicleap R&D test rig where we collect room/space data for our machine vision/machine learning work.
— Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) February 12, 2017
We do this in order to understanding lighting, texture, various surfaces. MxRL lives in the real world.
— Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) February 12, 2017
We do this in order to understand lighting, texture, various surfaces. sorry - previous tweet had bad spelling :-)
— Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) February 12, 2017
To all the @magicleap fans: we will not let you down. Back to heads down mode so we can finish and ship :-)
— Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) February 12, 2017
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