03 June 2015

Magic Leap Announces Its AR SDK

Magic Leap wants game makers, filmmakers, and other creators to build augmented reality experiences on its platform announced how that will happen. Magic Leap is launching a development platform. It’s just opened a Developers section of its website where people can sign up for access to its SDK, which will work with the Unreal and Unity game engines. The company tweets that the SDK will be released soon. Magic Leap has stayed notoriously quiet in general. No one really knew it existed until Google and other top firms invested $542 million last October.


Now it gave a more detailed account of how it will bring AR to our faces. The platform’s compatibility with Unity and the technologies would work together after he found Magic Leap job listings referencing Unity back in October. Another piece of big news announced was that Magic Leap has spent part of its $592 million in funding to build a 300,000 square foot pilot manufacturing facility in Florida for its photonic lightfield chip. This chip powers its augmented reality headset that works by shooting light directly onto your eye, rather than sticking a screen in front of it.

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