Magic Leap One Creator Edition price, specifications, battery life, release date

Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal wearing Magic Leap
One
Magic Leap

• Magic Leap’s long-awaited smartglasses are finally
  available to order in the United States.
• They cost $2,295 and will start shipping today for
  people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San
  Francisco, and Seattle.
• The product is called “Magic Leap One Creator Edition”
  and it is intended for developers and other professionals who
  want to make content for the platform.

2,065 days after the multi-billion dollar augmented reality
startup Magic Leap was revealed to the world in a cryptic TED
Talk, its first product — a pair of futuristic smart glasses
— is now available to order in select cities in the United
States.

Magic Leap announced on
Wednesday that its product, Magic Leap One Creator Edition, is
available to order on its website. The company says it will first
ship orders out to customers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami,
New York, San Francisco, and Seattle starting
Tuesday. People outside of those 6 cities can pre-order
their device now, and Magic Leap says it will eventually ship to
additional locations, though the exact timeframe for the wider
rollout wasn’t specified.

The system, which includes the “Lightwear” headset, a controller,
and a battery and computer pack that goes into your pocket called
“Lightpack,” will cost $2,295.

For an extra $495, you can add a Professional Developer Package,
which includes a hub that allows you to connect the headset to a
computer and charge at the same time, as well as a resource that
will provide a replacement Magic Leap One within 24 hours.

The prices and “Creator Edition” moniker suggest that this device
is for developers, who will create software and other
experiences, so there’s a full set of content for the system when
it launches more broadly.

The Magic Leap One
system.
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Leap

“It’s really for developers and creators to start to understand
and start to engage with the power of spatial computing,” Magic
Leap’s Chief Product Officer, Omar Khan, who recently joined the
company, said in an interview. “So they can take the experiences
that they’re developing for other platforms and really start to
think about — I call it the word ‘unshackling.'” 

But the system won’t be limited to handpicked developers.
Instead, anyone who has registered for Magic Leap’s developer
program, called “Creator Portal,” can order the smartglasses.

“I mean, obviously, Magic Leap One Creator Edition is for
creators and developers,” Khan said. “You know I do not put any
limitation on who can be a creator or developer.”

What does it do?

Magic Leap’s LuminOS
interface
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Leap

Magic Leap’s glasses display the real world and integrate
computer graphics, so that users can play games, videoconference
with friends and family, and get work done. 

Magic Leap is one of the most richly funded startups in the field
of “augmented reality,” but Magic Leap prefers the term
“spatial computing.”  

The buzz around Magic Leap’s tech led the Florida-based startup
to raise over $2.3 billion from investors including Google,
Alibaba, top-tier Sand Hill Road venture capitalists,
and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm.

One early application shipping with the device is called Create,
which enables people to virtually change the world around them —
at least through the lenses of Magic Leap One. 

“I love the color purple, I’m wearing purple today, and I may
choose to put a purple hue on the world that I interact with,”
Khan said. “I can say I want to turn every mug into a vase
and I can start to put flowers and cups around my room and around
the physical spaces that I interact with.”

“The spatial browser is an important part of launch from a
Creator Edition perspective, there’s communications, social, a
lot of aspects to what we’re launching,” he continued.

The first device specifications

There are a number of
sensors on the glasses that allow them to sense the environment
they are in.
Magic
Leap

There’s also a lot of advanced technology in the system: It runs
off a Nvidia Parker processor, which includes 6 ARM cores. Its
GPU is an Nvidia Pascal with 256 cores.

It’s also got 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of built-in storage, of which
about 33GB is reserved for the operating system.

For connectivity, the device can connect to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
There isn’t a cellular connection available on Magic Leap One.

All of that computing power needs electricity, and the
rechargeable battery last for “up to 3 hours continuous use,”
Magic Leap said. “Power level will be sustained when connected to
an AC outlet.”

Here are few images of the user interface from the developer
program:

Magic Leap

Magic Leap

Magic Leap

Here are some pictures of a working device, via the FCC: 

FCC

FCC

Here’s a list of specs: 

“Lightwear” glasses and “Lightpack” computer
pack

CPU & GPU

• NVIDIA Parker SOC
• CPU: 2 Denver 2.0 64-bit cores + 4 ARM Cortex A57 64-bit
  cores (2 A57’s and 1
  Denver accessible to applications)
• GPU: NVIDIA Pascal, 256 CUDA cores
• Graphic APIs: OpenGL 4.5, Vulkan, OpenGL ES 3.1+AEP

RAM

Storage Capacity

• 128 GB (actual available storage capacity 95GB)

Power

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Up to 3 hours
  continuous use. Battery
  life can vary based on use cases. Power level will be sustained
  when connected
  to an AC outlet.
• 45-watt USB-C Power Delivery (PD) charger

Audio Input/ Output

• Voice (speech to text) + real world audio (ambient)
• Onboard speakers and 3.5mm jack with audio spatialization
  processing

Connectivity

• Bluetooth 4.2
• WiFi 802.11ac/b/g/n
• USB-C

Controller

Haptics

Tracking

• 6DoF (position and orientation) 

Touchpad

LEDs

• 12-LED (RGB) ring with diffuser

Power 

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Up to 7.5 hours
  continuous use.
• 15-watt USB-C charger

Other inputs 

• 8-bit resolution Trigger Button
• Digital Bumper Button
• Digital Home Button