Sliders can adjust the dimming intensity, from near blackout to a slight touch.Ī second demo showed me another spin on the dimming effect: A giant 3D luxury watch floated in front of me in the office demo room, but with dimming activated it created a halo around the watch and blocked out the real world from behind it. The Magic Leap 2's selective dimming technology can make a whole room, or only parts of it, suddenly darken to offer better contrast or focus on AR effects. The Magic Leap 2's new field of view, comparatively, to Magic Leap One. The Magic Leap 2 is the best of all, but still not perfect. Snap's first pair of AR glasses has a very limited viewing area: The first Magic Leap was better, and the Microsoft HoloLens 2 better still. VR headsets avoid this problem because they have larger fields of view and a goggle-like blindered design, and they don't have to worry about blending the real world with the virtual. The taller viewing area also meant that stuff on the walls would still be visible when I was looking at the table.įield of view has been a big limiter in AR glasses: Existing hardware has a restricted zone where AR effects can appear, and outside of that box, they disappear from view. One thing I immediately noticed was that the wider viewing area allowed me to get closer to the table while still seeing everything on it. (I gathered at a similar round table for a HoloLens 2 demo back in 2019 at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, too.) The demo, which was made using satellite data and meant to represent a potential use for how AR can represent large-scale map data and multiple virtual monitors at once, turned the round table into a 3D landscape, while the monitors on the walls provided extra simultaneous streams of data.
My first demo showed a familiar holographic situation-room-type experience, a common style of demo for AR. There's no way to easy illustrate the headset's dimming, but it feels like AR glasses turned into sunglasses. But the most notable thing is a feature I've never seen before on any AR headset or glasses: The lenses can dim the outside world, becoming a pair of blackout sunglasses that AR can display on top of. Plus, the Magic Leap 2's field of view is notably larger, showing more holographic objects in front of me in a taller, wider area that isn't as cut off on the sides. It's not phone-connected like Qualcomm's upcoming AR glasses: It's stand-alone, but with that hip pack as part of its package.Īll of these parts feel upgraded. And there's still a handheld, wireless, pointer-style controller. It uses an AMD-based processor this time, which Johnson says is more powerful than the previous Nvidia-based chipset. They still tether to a processor box, which is large and hums loudly as it clips onto my belt. There's a pair of goggle-eyed glasses, which unfortunately don't work over my own prescription glasses. But this Magic Leap 2 headset I wore is real, if relatively similar in concept to the original. Then-CEO Rony Abovitz showed me a table with a cloth over it back in 2018, claiming the Magic Leap 2 was under it.
Promises of Magic Leap's next-gen hardware have been around since, well, my first visit.
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