Magic Leap One Creator Edition mixed reality headset goes on sale at $2,295

Mixed reality headset maker Magic Leap has finally announced that the Magic Leap One Creator Edition is shipping today in the United States for a price of $2,295. As of this writing, the Magic Leap One will offer a limited suite of experiences and developers and artists will have to create their own apps for the Magic Leap World store. [caption id=“attachment_4926551” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Magic Leap One.[/caption] What is mixed reality, you ask? Great question. In layman’s term, mixed reality is a combination of augmented reality and virtual reality. Virtual reality is completely synthetic, a virtual world. Augmented reality is where the real world is enhanced with more information. Basically, the Magic Leap One will merge the real and virtual worlds to produce a new environment wherein the user shall see physical and virtual objects co-existing and interacting with one another. Magic Leap also isn’t the first to design such a product and neither will it be the last. Microsoft, Acer and a few others have had their own mixed reality headsets in the market for more than a year now. But in spite of being a startup, Magic Leap has raised over $2.3 billion from investors ranging from Google to JP Morgan. Will Magic Leap launch its products in India? We wouldn’t be too optimistic. [caption id=“attachment_4727531” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Magic Leap One Creator Edition.[/caption] Coming to the specifications, the Magic Leap One comes in three parts. There’s a headset called Lightware, a computing device connected to the headset called Lightpack and a hand-held controller. The processing and rendering of virtual objects are handled by the Lightpack which contains a relatively low-powered NVIDIA Tegra X2 mobile chipset. Supporting it is 8 GB of memory, 128 GB of storage and a battery that makes it portable. The battery is said to provide up to 3 hours of continuous use. The Lightware has tracking cameras and a lens called a “photonics chip” which is responsible for projecting images overlaying in the real world. The headset also has a 3.5 mm headphone jack but there are also tiny speakers built into the headset’s sides. As of right now, the Magic Leap One can only be connected to the internet via Wi-Fi even though Magic Leap has signed a deal with mobile carrier AT&T. We can expect in future the Magic Leap One will support mobile connectivity, however, the company has said that the Magic Leap One is essentially made for indoor usage.