What is the timeframe? What has it been like?
- In order to achieve the goal, several technological breakthroughs are necessary for miniaturization and power efficiency. Magic Leap is trying to build as much as possible in-house and only for the purpose of their spatial computing platform: from optics and chips to the operating system.
- The computer vision system needs to be optimized for outdoor use and all weather conditions just like self-driving cars. It needs to do tracking, face and object recognition, depth estimation, lighting and so on at the same time all the time - on a mobile device. A solution could be to do all of these things with a single Deep Neural Network.
- Other research areas include wave-guide technology for a larger Field of View, more focal planes, variable optics, meta-materials (nonlinear optics), small form-factor fiber displays, spatial-light modulators to control phase properties of light, volumetric video live streams.
- There will have to be compromise, in the next five years compared to the goal.