Magic Leap Announces Its Augmented Reality Developer Platform

Magic Leap wants game makers, filmmakers, and other creators to build augmented reality experiences on its platform, and today on stage at MIT’s EmTech Digital conference, it announced how that will happen. Magic Leap has just opened a Developers section of its website where people can sign up for access to its SDK, which will work with the Unreal and Unity game engines.

Onstage alongside CEO Rony Abovitz and Chief Futurist/superstar sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson, Magic Leap’s Chief Creative Officer Graeme Devin said he had a secret to share before revealing plans for the AR platform. “We are going to start training developers on this” Devin said before encouraging developers to go visit its site and send a request for access.

The platform’s compatability with Unity and Unreal confirms TechCrunch writer Steven O’Hear’s prediction that the technologies would work together after he found Magic Leap job listings referencing Unity back in October.

Another piece of big news announced was that Magic Leap has spent part of its $592 million in funding to build a 300,000 square foot pilot manufacturing facility for its “photonic lightfield chip”. This chip powers its augmented reality headset that works by shooting light directly onto your eye, rather than sticking a screen in front of it.

We’ll have more info shortly, as the talk is ongoing.

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