Just as an FYI, Karl posted an update referencing the iFixit teardown today: https://www.kguttag.com/2018/08/23/ifixits-magic-leap-one-te...

For more technical information about the Magic Leap rendering stack and their dual-focal plane approach, here's the deck from a SIGGRAPH talk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h36TJRkK4KteRUVcoXAnbHzTFfu...

In this article, Karl mentions he's busy working on RAVN. Anyone knows what he is referring to?

Yet again something M-I complex adopts a norse term...

How come I've never heard of Ravn?! It looks like this is a company we should hear more often in the news (maybe because it's a defense contractor?)

Not all companies benefit from mainstream news coverage. Animal cloning companies are a good example, they don't make too much noise because they get a lot of push back from animal rights groups, but their businesses continue to grow rapidly in the farming industry.

The only thing Ravn needs to care about is awareness within the defence industry.

Damn, that’s someone who really knows where their towel is. He nailed it two years ahead of time, through a morass of hype, based on patents alone and got it all right. Looking over more of his site he correctly predicted why the view of the real world would be so dark, that they’d be limited to only 2 focus planes, and pretty much everything else.

Wow.

He's nearly a 40 year veteran of things in the relevant space...

He did the predictions from a patent. Why are people impressed? Or there is more to the story that the article cares to mention?

It won't be surprising at all if Karl gets approached by ML for a job opportunity

Or a lawsuit for some reason.

Do the dual focal planes actually work well? What happens when something is moving on the boundary? Does it pop back and forth between them?