Magic Leap, the secretive Dania Beach-based company developing “mixed reality,” filed 97 new patent applications between Aug. 20 and Aug. 27, including one for a contact lens.
The company, which raised more than half a billion dollars in a Google-led funding round last year, is believed to be developing a wearable device that would display 3-D virtual objects in the real world. The patents provide a few more hints into what the company is developing; CEO Rony Abovitz has suggested that the technology may replace the need for a smartphone and other screens.
Most of rest of the patents filed in August “underscore Magic Leap’s push to make virtual objects fit seamlessly into their physical environments,” said Re/Code in a recent post. “Several concern the behavior of ‘outside light’ (that is, the light bouncing off of real-world objects and hitting your eyeballs normally) and how it will be ‘selectively attenuated,’ or dimmed, when it reaches a user,” the report said. Read more here.