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Augmented Reality Startup Magic Leap, Funded by Google, is Working on Super-Real 3-D “Light Field” Display

The secretive startup has yet to publicly describe or demonstrate its technology, and declined an interview request. But patent and trademark filings reveal the kind of technology that Magic Leap plans to use to create what the company’s CEO and founder Rony Abovitz has called “the most natural and human-friendly wearable computing interface in the world.” Here's What It Looks Like To Play Tennis Through The Eyes Of Roger Federer. Wearing The News Could Be The Next Big Thing. You can already clean with the news, eat the news and wipe with the news.

Wearing The News Could Be The Next Big Thing

And now, new technology is allowing you to wear the news too. Several news app developers are experimenting with sending news stories to wearable technology such as Google Glass and smartwatches, Agence France Presse reported. One of those apps is known as News Republic, a program that sends news to mobile devices from outlets like Reuters, Al Jazeera and the Associated Press.

By sending news directly to people's wrists or eyewear, breaking news is able to get out faster and more efficiently than ever. (Whether it will be disorienting to have a headline flash in front of your eyeballs is another matter.) Resultado de imágenes de Google para. Images?q tbn:ANd9GcQU8PJDxw2TFoGlNeT7eLXu ZpbdCPNn5ihd1bJgTJgvrYYDjvTDQ. Images?q tbn:ANd9GcQIWZ4lC47f7gCGIM7QMTudLSUmhyByG2mp8XHA6uhN2n335TtC. Episode 1: Human Communication. What is Wearable Tech and what can I do with it? Episode 5: Daily Life.