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c-3po and r2d2 in your living room magic leap announced is working together with Lucasfilm to produce Star Wars related content what exactly that content is neither magically nor Lucasfilm is saying magically founder Ronnie above it says the two are working together in a semi secret lab if you haven't heard of magic leap it's a tech company that specializes in mixed reality mix reality is now the term for interacting with 3d computer generated objects that are integrated with real-world objects you got that in the demo video c-3po talks to the viewer about Han Solo's debt with Jabba the Hutt r2d2 then projects a map onto a real table in the room on the bottom of the video it says shot directly through magically technology no special effects or compositing were used in the creation of this video this isn't the first video showing off magic leaves technology back in April a demo of a 3d virtual desktop made the rounds okay so this is all very cool but when will we be able to interact with magically it's mixed reality great question so far that information is not public apart from those people working directly with magically no one has seen the hardware that lets you see these amazing mixed reality scenes what we do know is that magically uses light fields technology similar to that of the electro camera that camera lets you take a picture then choose what area to focus on after the image was taken magic leaves product may allow you to see depth and let you choose to focus on different computer generated images anyone else feel like Philip J fry right now shut up and take my money anyway I maya's akhtar and you can keep up with the hottest tech news at cnet com / update