Don't misinterpret what you read. Magic Leap is still developing the operating system that this stand alone runs on. And what they are most likely doing is 'making a developers kit', not working with it, but making it.
You will never really know since they are not allowed to speak of it.
But, that's kinda hard to do if you have not finished the OS to fit in a stand-alone.
May 11, 2017
http://mashable.com/2017/05/11/magic-leap-developer-sign-up/#qssoiDL9hqqf
Looking for the folks that are going to write the SDK is far from having one up and running and folks writing code with it.
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They have to give the appearance they are closer than they are or the investors would shy away.
They may need 2 more rounds of funding after this but I'm sure one more is in order.
It's no different than I have seen hundreds of other company's do... only this time we are playing with very serious amounts of money.
While they are not being dishonest about anything exactly, just allowing you to lead yourself to believe in things by the way they are incompletely said. That is, if you let yourself.
A experienced venture capital investor is quick to pick-up on such things,
just because it is in your face all the time and will break you quickly.
I would never say they are not going to do this. I am only weary of time line impressions you may be getting from the press releases. And perhaps the impression that the average consumer will be able to afford this.
Folks can't afford a Vive and this is going to be 4-6x as much or more. Given that it gets a foothold, prices will come down and development will go up.
The point here is that it's a good luck situation getting real dev's to write code for a product that not many can afford to buy. Microsoft fixed that situation for itself with those WMR Goggles if you can understand that.
If not, you soon will. But it was the smartest play I have seen this whole VR/AR tech cycle.