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Magic Leap will release its software development platform “soon”
July 05, 2025
Magic Leap, the Google-backed augmented reality company, is getting one step closer to bringing developers and filmmakers on board with its secretive platform. Yesterday at MIT Technology Review’sEmTech Digital conference, Magic Leap’s chief creative officer Graeme Devine announced that the startup has built a software development kit, and that it supports both the Unity and Unreal game engines. It’s not really a big surprise that the SDK will support both Unity and Unreal, since these two game engines have been crucial in the development of the virtual reality tech we have today. No specific timeframe was given regarding the release of the platform, but Magic Leap recently tweeted that it would be released “soon”.
Magic Leap has overall been extremely quiet about its platform.The first real glimpse we got of the companywas the video attached above, which shows off a first-person shooter being played inside someone’s office. This is supposedly a very early prototype of what the company is building.
Magic Leap got its start last October afterGoogle invested $542 millionin the augmented reality startup. And according toTechCrunch, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz explains that the company is “out of the R&D phase and into the transition to real product introduction”. He also says that the company spent a portion of its overall $592 million in funding on a 300,000 square foot pilot manufacturing center in Florida for its “photonic lightfield chip”.
There’s certainly a possibility that we could get more details on Magic Leap’s tech at E3 this year, but nothing is for certain as of now. We’ll be live at E3 from June 16th through the 18th, so we’ll be sure to bring you coverage if it becomes available.
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