The Magic Leap One Augmented Reality Viewer is about to see the light. Some of his specifications have now been found in a document on the developer’s website.
According to a report by Next Reality, users of the Magic Leap One developer website had access to hidden information. One of these developers found the text describing the Magic Leap One Field of View (FOV).
With an aspect ratio of 4:3, the Magic Leap One viewfinder should have a horizontal FOV of 40 degrees, a vertical one of 30 degrees and a diagonal one of 50 degrees. If this is true, Magic Leap One is about 45% larger than the HoloLens, which has a horizontal FOV of 30 degrees and a vertical FOV of 17.5 degrees.
Although it has a larger viewing window than its predecessor, built by Microsoft, both are far from the natural human field of vision, which is about 220 degrees horizontal (including peripheral vision). A typical VR viewfinder has a horizontal FOV of about 100 degrees.
In the documentation there are also some examples for the display: At 1 meter the shop window is enough to show a cat; at 3.5 meters Magic Leap One can show 3 persons with a height of approx. 180 cm.