One of the things that I personally was most excited to see is how the Magic Leap One actually looks through the lens. I don’t have the Magic Leap One, so I was interested to see how things actually look. I’ve read about the limited field of view and the semi-transparent virtual content, the mapping process, but I really wanted to see how it actually looks.
Here is a great video by Robert McGregor that get us an inner look as of how things look when you look through the Magic Leap One glasses.
Now it’s still not a perfect view as you see it with your own eyes and the image quality is quite crappy but it does give us a good understanding how the Magic Leap One feels like when you put it on your face and observing the scene in front of you.
You can see that there is a front rectangular screen behind each lens. This screen covers only a portion of the lens and therefore provides a limited field of view of around 50-degree diagonal FoV according to what I’ve read. It’s better than the HoloLens which is around 40-degrees diagonally but still limited. You can still see the entire space but the virtual content and the 3D spatial meshing process is seen only at that limited FoV in front of you in which place you are currently looking at. The camera can process a wider range but that UI meshing process can be seen only at a limited field of view.
Honestly, it’s really cool seeing how the meshing technology works in real-time as you move your MAgic Leap One around in your own place. Those generated meshes can then used by the developer to place virtual objects on, apply collision detection to and used for occlusion of virtual objects, pretty neat stuff.
This actual video is part of UploadVR Magic Leap One Hands-on first impression video posted on their YouTube channel. I do hope that we get to see more of these videos, just to get impressions of how it is like using the Magic Leap One for those who can’t afford to buy it and trying out themselves. Thanks for UploadVR and Robert McGregor for putting out those videos.