What They Say
Magic Leap has let some reviewers have a look at its new ML2 headset and we saw reports from the Information’s Reality Check and Protocol Entertainment. The headset uses LCOS displays and has a 70° field of view (with a promise to further double it in the ML3). The ML2 is due for release in September at “not far above” the $2,295 of the ML1.
Features shown at the event included global and local dimming to darken areas behind an AR object. The glasses will use an external processor pack, to be worn ‘at the hop’. There are inside-out cameras for tracking and the processor will run Android, rather than an earlier OS called Lumin which had ‘Android roots’. It has six degrees of freedom.
CEO Peggy Johnson told Protocol that it is producing optical components in its own factory in South Florida and assembles the headset in Mexico, insulating it from some of the supply chain issues the industry has been struggling with.
Having direct access to the factory also helped the company optimize manufacturing itself, Johnson said. “Our yield rates on the eyepieces are 92%,” she said.
She told Protocol that Magic Leap might return to consumer markets at some point in the future.
What We Think
The firm is developing which must have been helped by its partnership with AMD (Magic Leap is partnering with AMD). (BR)
