What the hell is Magic Leap doing? 

 Comments about their technology:

“I’m not sure what the category will be called,” Tull says when I ask him, “but it augments and brings you into a world in a completely realistic, immersive way without taxing your eyes or brain.” Jacobs also called Magic Leap “immersive and engaging.”

       “It’s not holography, it’s not stereoscopic 3-D,” he says. “You don’t need a giant robot to hold it over your head, you don’t need to be at home to use it. It’s not made from off-the-shelf parts. It’s not a cellphone in a View-Master.”

       
 “The space program had Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, and we’re in our Apollo phase,” he says. “We know that space travel is possible. We’re in the middle of full-blown product development and commercialization.” So is there a goal date to land on the moon? “You almost got me there to reveal the date,” Abovitz says with a laugh. “It’s very near term. But although we’re trying to deliver on a certain date, we’re also trying to achieve an ‘Oh my god, I feel like I’m a kid again” experience.'”


  “Holy Crap!” moment with his own technology when they got their first pixel to float in space sometime in late 2011 or early 2012.



 “It’s so badass you can’t believe it, David. It’s one of the few things I’ve ever experienced in my life where I came out and said, ‘This changes everything. This is a marker of the future.'”


comments from qualcomm article:
https://qualcommventures.com/so-badass-you-cant-believe-it-magic-leap-raises-542-million-to-launch-the-future-of-computing/


Rony Abovitz, a biomedical engineer who founded Mako Surgical, a successful robotic surgery company, before creating Magic Leap in 2010, said that his system would even offer a resolution close to the power of the human eye.

from NY Times article  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/science/taking-real-life-sickness-out-of-virtual-reality.html?_r=0

"When you see this, you will see that this is computing for the next 30 or 40 years. To go farther and deeper than we’re going, you would be changing what it means to be human."
Abovitz


"It is going to be transformative technology, there's no doubt about that." 
Prof. Brian Cox TV physicist

The experience will "disturb" audiences and put them "off balance", he predicted. "That's what it did when I saw it demonstrated."

from http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30056232



"beyond the current perception of mobile computing, augmented reality, and virtual reality".
 "We are transcending all three, and will revolutionise the way people communicate, purchase, learn, share and play."  Abovitz




Rocketship for the mind

“I’ve seen the technology, it does work,” said Poots. “I watched the blood from my tech director’s face drain – he went white. It must be like when people went from radio and suddenly there was television.”




Rony Abovitz' crazy TEDx prophecy