Magic Leap 2 Arrives In September With A Hefty Price Hike

Aside from a smaller form factor that tips the scales at around just 9 ounces, Magic Leap 2 also promises a wider field of view at 70 degrees, with each eye taking a peek at 2.5 million pixels’ worth of content on a screen with a 120Hz refresh rate. The 12.6-megapixel RGB camera is capable of 4K video capture, but it won’t be long before the 256GB onboard storage fills up with hi-res footage. In total, there are three world-facing cameras, a depth sensor, a main RGB snapper, and four eye-tracking cameras.

At the heart of Magic Leap’s latest offering is a 7nm AMD chip with four cores based on the Zen 2 architecture, while graphics heavy lifting is done by an AMD GPU with eight compute units and a peak frequency of 1.8GHz. The screen offers a resolution of 1440 x 1760 pixels, while the peak brightness goes up to an impressive 2,000 nits, as per the official spec sheet.

Magic Leap claims that its updated mixed-reality headset can last up to 3.5 hours on a single charge while putting it in sleep mode will drain the battery in seven hours. Aside from the U.S. market, the metaverse gear is also expected to go on sale in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on September 30. Later this year, it will also be up for grabs in Japan and Singapore.