Magic Leap One Creator Edition Mixed Reality Glasses Launched: Ship With Lightpack Computing …

The Magic Leap One Creator Edition glasses that combine Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to offer a new realm of Mixed Reality, are now available for purchase. These Mixed Reality or MR glasses are offered by Magic Leap, a company that is backed by Google. The company unveiled the exciting new way to interact with physical and the virtual world, last year.

Magic Leap has finally started selling the Magic Leap One Creator Edition glasses. These devices come bundled with a computing pack and a handheld controller for efficient interaction with the virtual objects. Interestingly, the company has also opened up access to the Magic Leap Creator Portal. This creators’ area allows developers to tinker with the platform on the software front, and develop new avenues to explore MR, as well as conjure up exciting new opportunities.

Magic Leap One Creator Edition Mixed Reality Glasses: Specifications and Features

As the name implies, the Magic Leap One Creator Edition glasses are meant for developers who want to explore the Mixed Reality platform, and employ the same for newer opportunities. General public won’t be able to use these glasses yet. Interestingly, Magic Leap is keen to launch its MR platform to the common public, but before that, it wants developers to test the same.

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An Nvidia Parker SoC, coupled with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage, powers the Lightpack computing device. Interestingly, back when it was unveiled last year, Nvidia’s Tegra 2 platform powered the computing unit. The Lightpack depends on LuminOS operating system to run the show. Magic Leap assures that the OS is powerful enough to provide a high-fidelity visual experience. The company is offering a Magic Kit that includes sample code, tech writeups, and design diaries to help developers. The kit is essentially a stepping stone as well as a guide to explore the world of Mixed Reality. Once familiar, developers can build new experiences for the Magic Leap One platform.

Previous reports indicated the glasses would have their very own onboard low-powered processing unit. The computing unit would possess Machine Learning capability. The reports went on to add that the glasses would also have as many as six external cameras that would take in visual data from the physical world and use it in the Mixed Reality world.

Magic Leap One Creator Edition Mixed Reality Glasses: Features

The company is offering the Magic Leap One goggles with Lightpack computing pack and Control handheld input device. The bundled Control, allows as many as six degrees of freedom. In simple words, the Control offers great deal of freedom of movement and precision movement within the MR world. Additionally, it also sports force control as well as haptic feedback. The Lightpack is essentially a proprietary spatial computing platform. It is constantly working hard in the background to deliver the mixed reality experience to the Magic Leap One glasses.

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Magic Leap Studios has developed ‘Create’, a platform that lets developers paint, draw, build, and create. There are a few games under development that would usher in an era of hyper-realistic action gaming experience. The company has tied up with Helio Web browser that adds 3D and spatial Web experiences. There’s even a social application sub-platform to work with services powered by Twilio.

The Lightwear glasses have onboard speakers, and a 3.5mm headphone jack along with audio spatialisation processing. In simple words, the glasses have special hardware that judges not only the direction but the virtual distance of the sound, and then relays it accordingly. This completes the illusion of depth of field.

Magic Leap One Creator Edition Mixed Reality Glasses: Price and Availability

Magic Leap has begun selling the Magic Leap One Creator Edition for a price of $2,295 (Rs. 1,57,000 approx). Sadly, the Creator Edition is available only in certain cities in the U.S. The company hasn’t officially confirmed international availability yet.

However, the field of Mixed Reality is developing rapidly. Also, Indian mega-retail house Reliance Retail, is interested in similar technologies. Hence there’s a good chance the MR glasses could land in India soon.

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