Still definitely a prototype
A photo purporting to show a working prototype of Magic Leap’s augmented reality device has leaked.
The device has been shrouded in mystery for years – Magic Leap raised half a billion dollars in investment funds in 2014, and released a demo video last year that amazed many, but we haven’t seen even a sliver of a working machine, at least not until now.
The image was obtained by Business Insider from a source, and the device, which is supposed to be portable, is rough, to say the least.
Called PEQo – PEQ is the prototype’s name, and the number seemingly refers to the iteration – you can make out a band that wraps almost completely around the wearer’s head, and we guess there’s some kind of lens (or there’s supposed to be) in the front through which viewers see digital images overlain onto the real world. This design would be similar to Microsoft’s HoloLens AR viewer.
