Magic Leap : Showing realistic 3D computational image
It was last February when I got to know start-up based in Florida, Magic Leap. Since there has been several Virtual Reality hardware such as Oculus VR and Google Cardboard, what makes this little-known company so special that Google secured the company more than $500 million?
While Magic Leap has yet to publicly describe its technology and rejected its interview request, we can sneak peek what kind of technology the Magic Leap plans to use through its patent and trademark filing.
Here’s a simple principle of VR : it tricks your brain into perceiving depth by showing different images to eye. Actually, It’s 2-D images that they show you. In other words, when the warped 2-D images are viewed in close proximity, users are tricked into believing they’re standing in a virtual world.
So, your eyes need to be focused on the flat screen, which means that realistic 3D virtual image vanishes as soon as you leave out focus cue. Contrary to this existing VR display, the Magic Leap has developed alternative way.
According to its trade filing, Its technology is described as a “Wearable computer hardware, namely, an optical display system incorporating a dynamic light-field display.” The WRAP display is made up of an array of many small curved mirrors(Curved Micro-reflector); light would be delivered to that array via optical fiber, and each of the tiny elements would reflect some of that light to create the light field for a particular point in 3-D space. In addition, these 2-D planar wave guide sets are semi-transparent which allows users to see the real world simultaneously while wearing a Magic Leap device. Multiple(or a single under certain circumstance) layers of such tiny mirrors would allow the display to produce the illusion of virtual objects at different distances.