Photonic Lightfield Chip

Magic Leap's Photonic Lightfield Chip is one of the most mysterious and intriguing elements of the Magic Leap story. This chip(which resembles a featureless piece of glass) purportedly generates lightfields in the most natural way ever devised, and delivers them to the human eye at very close distances without additional optics. If this is true, then the Photonic Lightfield Chip is the most advanced transparent display in the world.

As quoted from the WIRED and retold on The Verge:

''Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz describes the light-field chip as a “three-dimensional wave… like component that has very small structures in it, and they manage the flow of photons that ultimately create a digital light-field signal.” Wired has photographed this mysterious chip, but Magic Leap is still refusing to detail exactly how it or the technology around it works. Magic Leap won’t even say whether its technology will be used in goggles or what they’ll look like. One employee describes Magic Leap as “like dreaming with your eyes open.”''

''It might also be worth mentioning that the source also misquoted him. He said “wafer-like” not “wave-like”.''