Could this be the future of augmented-reality?

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Magic Leap, the AR company where Snow Crash writer Neal Stephenson resides as "Chief Futurist", has released a conceptual demo showing off what it hopes to achieve with its cutting edge tech.
Apparently, it wants to let you shoot robots in your workplace. Ah, the future!
But Magic Leap wants to do this in a way we've never seen before. It wants the augmented-reality objects to seamlessly interact with those in the real world. "Magic Leap is mustering an arsenal of techniques - some tried and true, others unbelievably advanced - to produce a synthesised light field that falls upon the retina in the same way as light reflected from real objects in your environment," said Stephenson upon joining the company in December. "Depth perception, in this system, isn't just a trick played on the brain by showing it two slightly different images."
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