Magic Leap releases an entirely mind-boggling video that simultaneously promises nothing and everything

Magic Leap, the company shrouded in mysterious claims of reinventing the way we interact with our world, recently released a video. Titled ‘Just another day in the office at Magic Leap’, it has some pretty big implications, and is hands down the most exciting thing we’ve seen in a while.

The video starts off with what looks like a heads-up display depicting a typical workstation in an office setting, with various bits of information overlaid on the screen like the current time and battery life in the lower right corner, media control in the upper left corner.

Then the wearer/user’s hand interacts with several floating apps, pulling 3D icons inward, swiping through mails, pictures and the like as these objects float, spin and respond to gestures. The demo then quickly escalates in pace as a game is launched, where the ‘user’ picks up a model ray gun (courtesy Weta Digital’s Dr. Grordbort), after which all hell breaks loose. From robots crashing into the office space and storming the player as they careen towards him from all directions, to blasts from the weapon knocking out enemies and simulating damage on the walls of the actual office space, it’s all quite mindblowing.

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But like all of their communications and announcements thus far, no promises are made and nothing is explicitly implied. it’s hard to say how much of this demo is real and how far we are from actually experiencing such a show of real-virtual world-blending. At any rate, it’s a pretty awesome demo; one that you’ll want to watch more than just once.