Magic Leap's $2.3B secrets may start to spill this week

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We’re delighted to be able to share that we’re teamed up with @magicleap as an early access dev partner to explore spatial computing on the immersive web! #WebXR

— Mozilla MR (@mozillareality) March 19, 2018

Current Status: Installing the @magicleap SDK and the @unity3d technical preview! pic.twitter.com/KREXXHs0D1

— Yannick (@cyannick) March 19, 2018

#tfw y're installing an SDK for a product you may never own @magicleap - initial "simulator" experiments to follow, stay tuned #GDC2018 @unity3d #madewithunity #magicleap pic.twitter.com/PYgGBKjycl

— jamesckane (@jamesckane) March 19, 2018

Magic Leap, the super-hyped, incredibly secretive startup that's raised over $2 billion for augmented reality glasses you reportedly have to see to believe, is now telling developers its secrets.

Today, the company opened up its Creator Studio, providing tools for devs to begin work on apps and games for the Magic Leap One headset. (Unity and Unreal Engine are both on board, as well as Mozilla's WebXR.)

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And though you've got to sign a nondisclosure agreement (read: don't tweet Magic Leap's secrets) before downloading those tools, I've got a strong suspicion that a bunch of Magic Leap's hush-hush details are about to leak out anyhow.

It's already begun:

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Are there any particularly intriguing revelations here? Not yet -- but give them time. There's a proud tradition of devs digging through SDKs like these to discover the inner workings...

(Excerpt) Read more at: CNET

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