The hottest new tech startup is not in Silicon Valley
A secretive company near Fort Lauderdale, Florida has been making ripples in tech news after landing USD 793.5 mn in the largest C-round of financing in internet history bringing the total invested amount to USD 1.4 bn, writes tech journalist Kevin Kelly for Wired. The startup in question is Magic Leap, who create an optical system that creates the illusion of depth in such a way that your eyes focus far for far things, and near for near, and will converge or diverge at the correct distances. Magic Leap have put together a video that briefly explains the difference between VR, AR, and MR (run time 2:06). So while the description of what Magic Leap really is is a little difficult to decipher, in fact, the vagueness surrounding what Magic Leap’s product really is adds to the mystery of a company invested in by Google, Alibaba, Andreessen Horowitz, and Kleiner Perkins, but about which nobody really knows anything. A video has been released that provides some insight (run time 4:24), in it CEO Rony Abovitz claims, “Your brain is like a graphics processor … we basically tried to clone what that signal is, we made a digital version of that, and we talk to the GPU of the brain.”