This is my first time hearing about Magic Leap, and it is quite a story. Reminiscent of Theranos. Was the retinal projection tech ever real, even in an imperfec

This is my first time hearing about Magic Leap, and it is quite a story. Reminiscent of Theranos. Was the retinal projection tech ever real, even in an imperfect, non-miniaturised form? Also, I stumbled upon a Variety piece [1] about a Magic Leap conference that sounds straight out of HBO's Silicon Valley: >However, Magic Leap decided to go a different route. When its CEO Rony Abovitz took the stage at the beginning of the conference’s opening keynote, he vaguely framed the company’s technology as a remedy to political and other divisions plaguing today’s world, postulating: “Our new medium of spatial computing is fresh. It doesn’t carry the baggage and negative headlines that are dominating the news today.” ... >“The conversation that we are starting here goes on for decades,” proclaimed Abovitz. He went on to talk about Magic Leap’s idea to build city-wide AR information layers — an interesting idea, but not anything we should expect to materialize any time soon, as he freely admitted, while inexplicably bringing up the spectre of fascism: >“There is gonna be other companies proposing alternate x-verses. There will be all these competing universes and systems, like there is competing governments. There is monarchy, there is democracy, there is fascism, and there is progressive, liberal thought. And these holistic systems will be how governance might happen. How many people live their life. And this is not tomorrow, this might be a few years from now. But you set the stage for that right now.” >Abovitz seemed to sense that there was still some work to be done before Magic Leap could defeat fascism in the Magicverse — and he promptly proposed to host a Burning Man-style gathering to get it done: >“In order to continue this conversation, we probably kind of need a Burning Man in the desert. Like a kind of Magicverse event where we hang out for a few days, do a vision quest, build weird things. So more on that later, can’t commit to it 100%, but we think it’d be cool.” >There were some other odd moments that morning. A third-party developer read a poem to the audience. Science fiction author and Magic Leap chief futurist Neal Stephenson talked close to 10 minutes about virtual goats. The three-hour keynote didn’t feature a single live demo. [1] https://variety.com/2018/digital/opinion/magic-leap-leapcon-1202978949/ https://variety.com/2018/digital/opinion/magic-leap-leapcon-...