The company revealed pictures of its first planned product – an AR headset dubbed the Magic Leap One – in December 2017, with a proposed launch window sometime in 2018. Magic Leap has faced criticism before for taking up a large amount of investment without producing anything tangible in return. We look forward to having them join us on our journey to build an amazing future.” It is unclear at the moment who the “other new investors” are. In a statement announcing the new funding, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz said, “The Magic Leap team and I are happy to welcome The Public Investment Fund and the other new investors to the Magic Leap family.
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The company’s total Series D funding now stands at $963 million. The latest fundraising is part of a Series D funding round which saw the company earlier raise $502 million from Singapore’s Temasek Holdings in October last year. In any case it seems mostly hidden during ‘standing in one spot’ use-cases, and impacts text legibility more than anything else.Various components of the Magic Leap One (L-R): computing unit Lightpack, AR glasses Lightwear, and motion controller Control. ML1 had a similar issue and it has likely carried over as part of the headset’s underlying display technology. I did see some notable blurring, mostly during positional head movement specifically. Content feels perfectly locked to the environment as you move your head around. Tracking remains as good as ever with ML2, and on-par with HoloLens 2.
Another thing I didn’t get to properly compare is resolution. Unfortunately this was part of the headset that I didn’t have time to really put through its paces in my demo as the company was more focused on showing me specific content. Instead of a hard line separating the augmented world from the real-world, it seems to gently fade away, which makes it less jarring when things go off-screen.Īnother bonus to immersion compared to other devices is the headset’s new dimming capability which can dynamically dim the lenses to reduce incoming ambient light in order to make the augmented content appear more solid. Unlike some other AR headsets, Magic Leap 2 (like its predecessor) has a fairly soft edge around the field-of-view. Thus real-world peripheral vision remains a unique advantage that HoloLens 2 holds over both ML1 and ML2… but more on that later.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing if only the augmented content is your main focus (I mean, VR headsets have done this pretty much since day one), but it’s a questionable design choice for a headset that’s designed to integrate your real-world and the augmented world. Like the original, the design blocks a significant amount of your real-world peripheral vision (intentionally, as far as I can tell), which makes the field-of-view appear larger than it actually is by comparison. While I suspect many first-time Magic Leap 2 users will come away with a ‘wow the field-of-view is so good!’ reaction… it’s important to remember that the design of ML2 (like its predecessor), ‘cheats’ a bit when it comes to field-of-view. At 70°, Magic Leap 2 feels like it’s just starting to scratch that ‘immersive’ itch, as you have more room to see the augmented content around you which means less time spent ‘searching’ for it when it’s out of your field-of-view. The most immediately obvious improvement to Magic Leap 2 is in the field-of-view, which is increased from 50° to 70° diagonally. Magic Leap 2 Hands-on Photo by Road to VR Hell-Magic Leap is even (sensibly) calling it an “AR headset” this time around instead of trying to invent its own vocabulary for the sake of differentiation.Īfter trying the headset at AWE 2022 last week, I got the sense that, like the company itself, Magic Leap 2 feels like a more mature version of what came before-and it’s not just the sleeker look. It’s positioned clearly as an enterprise product, aims to support more open development, and it isn’t trying to hype itself as a revolution. The company’s latest product, Magic Leap 2, in many ways reflects the ‘new’ Magic Leap. Magic Leap as a company has had a wild ride since its founding way back in 2010, with billions of dollars raised, an ambitious initial product that fell short of the hype, and a near-death and rebirth with a new CEO. Though Magic Leap 2 beats out its rival in several meaningful places, its underlying design still leaves HoloLens 2 with some advantages. Magic Leap 2 isn’t available just yet, but when it hits the market later this year it will be directly competing with Microsoft’s HoloLens 2.
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