Magic Leap Plans to Expand to Mobile AR

Magic Leap is getting ready to embrace augmented reality (AR) on mobile devices. The company is currently looking to hire a senior software engineer for mobile AR, who will be tasked with “expanding Magic Leap’s platform to mobile devices,” according to a new job listing. A Magic Leap spokesperson declined to comment.Magic Leap released its first hardware product, the Magic Leap One Creator Edition headset, last August. At the time, the company also published a mobile companion app that is meant to help Magic Leap owners to properly fit their headset, and assist them with text input and more.However, this new mobile push seems go a lot further. The aforementioned job listing describes the duties of the company’s future mobile AR engineer this way:“In this role, you will help build a cross-platform framework that enables large scale shared AR experiences between mobile devices (iOS, Android) and Magic Leap devices. Your work will include implementing high-performance, production quality AR and computer vision algorithms, and designing and building the Magic Leap mobile SDK.”