Magic Leap Shows Off Mind-Blowing Augmented Reality

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Magic Leap's new video showcases what wearing its AR headset could be like, including blasting aliens in your living room and flipping through your inbox in mid-air.

Here's what we know about Magic Leap. It's developing technology to put augmented reality images into the physical world. It's backed by Google. And, if the above video posted to YouTube is anything to go by, a typical work day involves robot attacks.

That's the gist of "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap," a buzz-generating 95-second YouTube clip that could clue us into the kind of augmented reality project that Magic Leap is at work on. In the video, we get a user's eye view of the Magic Leap office, as someone sorts through icons for YouTube and Gmail. (Always make sure to incorporate the apps from your big backer in your teaser videos.)

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9 Comments Comment from the forums
  • warmageth
    Why give the world this video but not explain anything about it?
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  • wysiwygbill
    It probably shouldn't be legal to do that while driving a vehicle or operating heavy machinery. :-p
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  • RCguitarist
    Thats a great movie and all, but will never happen. For example, the person in the video is obviously physically handling the weapon. And how would he feel recoil if what he was holding wasn't physically there? Lastly how would the program know that an object it was placing on the table wasn't going to clip through some small objects on the table. Great video editing and CG though.
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  • Avus
    Stage video is staged....
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  • PhilipMichaels
    Why give the world this video but not explain anything about it?

    I imagine they were going to show it with more context at the TED conference, and then when they had to pull out, they figured a teaser video was better than nothing. But that's just speculation on my part.
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  • PhilipMichaels
    For example, the person in the video is obviously physically handling the weapon. And how would he feel recoil if what he was holding wasn't physically there?

    Yes, the weapon is physically there -- my guess is it acts like a game controller, and that force feedback is involved somehow.
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  • alidan
    Thats a great movie and all, but will never happen. For example, the person in the video is obviously physically handling the weapon. And how would he feel recoil if what he was holding wasn't physically there? Lastly how would the program know that an object it was placing on the table wasn't going to clip through some small objects on the table. Great video editing and CG though.
    For example, the person in the video is obviously physically handling the weapon. And how would he feel recoil if what he was holding wasn't physically there?

    Yes, the weapon is physically there -- my guess is it acts like a game controller, and that force feedback is involved somehow.

    some, but he is playing it up/they edited the recoil in, remember this is weta, its basicly what they do.

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    as for the vr... of this quality, you would be looking at around a 4k screen per eye we are so far away from this its depressing to think that by the time it comes out i cant enjoy it like i would now... but we do have good vr coming soon.

    oh... before anyone asks, to drop things into real life like this, it requires a far higher res screen than vr does, which is why a single 1080p is ok for vr whereas 2 full 4k would be pushing it for ar.
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  • agnickolov
    IIRC WETA made the CGI effects in the Lord of the Rings trilogy...
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  • new2this4sure2
    Anyone have an idea where I can get the sound credits... would love to get the whole track from the opening score?
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