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A wireframe model depicting a Magic Leap reference design for a pair of augmented reality glasses.

How Reference Designs Accelerate Development Timelines

Behind the Innovation: Waveguide Research and Development

Why Diffractive Waveguides?

Three Magic Leap employees look through AR glasses tabletop frame prototypes.

Wearability Attributes to Make AR Adoptable

Magic Leap engineer testing an Augmented Reality component in a proprietary machine.

Integrating Components in AR Prototypes

Four Magic Leap engineers in protective gear talk to each other in a room full of waveguide equipment.

Understanding Constraints, Tradeoffs, and Risks in Waveguide Design

A Magic Leap technician in protective gear operates a metalization machine in a clean room.

Behind the Innovation: Waveguide Manufacturing

Magic Leap technician in protective gear holds a wafer in front of a group of waveguide equipment.

Custom Machinery for Waveguides

A Magic Leap engineer in protective gear inspects a clear wafer surrounded by machinery.

Behind the Innovation: Waveguide Design

A Magic Leap engineer holds a light engine projection lens with tweezers near a proprietary quality control measurement tool.

How Light Engines Power AR Visuals

A Magic Leap technician holds a waveguide after it has been inserted into a polymer frame.

How Magic Leap Waveguides Work

A Magic Leap technician holds and evaluates a waveguide in a clean room for the prototype one.

Behind the Scenes: AR Glasses Prototyping

A group of Magic Leap technicians works in a clean room, preparing an iteration of a new co-optimized design.

Co-Optimizing AR Optics

A gloved hand holds a waveguide, with lab machinery in the background.

Our Waveguide Expertise Fuels Partner Momentum

A Magic Leap engineer holds a tiny lens between his finger tips.

The Path Towards Miniaturization

Magic Leap engineer using a benching test unit to test Magic Leap waveguides.

Designing for AR Performance

Magic Leap benching test unit to test Magic Leap waveguides.

Vision Systems: When Precision Meets Perception

While wearing an AR device, a woman reviews a virtual shopping list on the front of her refrigerator.

World-Locking Grounds AR in Daily Life

Designing for the User Experience

A Human Factors Researcher measures facial anthropometry.

Human-Centered Industrial Design for Augmented Reality

A park with multiple people using augmented reality while walking, cycling, and relaxing on amphitheater seating.

Respecting Reality in AR Design

Side-by-side spaces showing contextually relevant AR content placed in a museum, a park, and a warehouse.

Spatialize with Purpose

A person uses touch screen controls to record an augmented reality experience.

Magic Leap Spectator Lets Everyone Watch AR Experiences

Four people at a park wear AR devices. Two play with a ball, one completes an exercise routine, and the other is jogging.

Designing AR for Human Abilities

Integrated Waveguide Manufacturing

Magic Leap projection optics with waveguide LCOS panel and LED illumination and RGB waveguide stack.

Simplifying the Science of Waveguides

A close up of a Magic Leap AR lens.

Innovation Unveiled: Making AR Possible

Delivering on the Promise of Technology: How Magic Leap and Strolll are Transforming Parkinson’s Care

How Magic Leap and Strolll are Transforming Parkinson’s Care

Two users wearing Magic Leap AR headsets to collaborate on a project.

Enhancing Design Visualization for AEC: How HUSH Transforms Design Visualizations Using AR