Magicverse ™ Magic Leap could be a glimpse of our future 5G

Technological optimism can be difficult to obtain nowadays. But the idea that technology will allow us to make the world a better place abounds in Magic Leap – it all depends on 5G.

Magic Leap, the company best known for its augmented reality headsets, is unveiling great ideas about what it sees as the future of technology. Rony Abovitz, CEO of the company, shared for the first time his vision of the future, called "Magicverse", in October 2018.

Abovitz developed this idea in an article on his blog and an interview Saturday, in which he describes the Magicverse as "a Emerging system of systems linking the physical to the digital, on a large scale, persistently in a community of people. "

Uh, what does that mean? Abovitz and his team essentially see the Magicverse as a layered physical space of objects and digital services that users can access through connected devices of all types, including, of course, Magic Leap headsets.

"The data, information and experiences within these environments are unlocked from screens and servers in order to scale up in contextually relevant physical environments," reads the blog.

A diagram that Magic Leap shared in his blog article helps to explain. This essentially shows how the RA will enable us to integrate digital services into our physical world.

There is one crucial element of the Magicverse that is not yet quite real: the 5G.

According to Abovitz, because the Magicverse relies on constant connectivity, the 5G – the technological concept of the buzzword of the moment – will be what will give Magicverse all its power. This is the new wireless network that ISPs, chip makers and gadget makers are striving to achieve.

"One of the conditions to allow Magicverse is to have hundreds of billions of dollars of new infrastructure to create high-speed network and peripheral computing areas in the modern cities of many countries." , we read in the Magic Leap blog. "The 5G (and what follows) are major components of what looks like a new space Internet."

The 5G promises very high speed connectivity. But it will also have a much larger capacity – the number of devices that a network can support at any time. A higher speed, as well as an increased capacity, will supposedly be what will allow a company filled with objects of Internet of Things (IoT) to actually work. Or, in the case of the Magicverse, several layers of digital space accessible via connected devices.

Abovitz's vision for the Magicverse is still extremely abstract; By the way, what is a digital layer of "energy and water"?

However, the Magicverse is significant because it actually provides a rare model for what a future 5G might look like.

The "future 5G" is a concept that ISPs have promised, with little agreement on what it really means. To date, it has been explained that it is a very fast Internet and diagrams illustrating, for example, autonomous cars communicating with each other. The promise of 5G is for the moment a lot of success and marketing.

But Abovitz's Magicverse could show how 5G will really help change the world, even if it means that everyone wears anti-stress helmets to interact with virtual objects and points of interest. Who would have thought that our introduction to the future would be Pokemon Go?

"Billions of devices will become windows on the digital space world," reads the blog.

The Magicverse concept is in its infancy and contains many question marks. But it's a way of imagining what a hyper-connected world might look like, made possible by 5G.

And given all the confusing information about 5G that is currently on the market, we will take it.