The secretive company has applied for 97 patents, providing a small hint at the futuristic tech it’s developing.
The group of patents, published between August 20 and 27, include devices and techniques for capturing and manipulating light and images. Several discuss “outside light,” which refers to the light from objects that bounces off the eye and creates what the brain interprets as an image. Glasses or a contact lens could interfere, and change what the eye sees. And because Magic Leap is in the business of augmented reality, it could use some of the technology it seeks to patent to dim some of the light from real objects to make the virtual ones it projects appear more real.
Also, as Re/Code notes, the patents discuss displaying light at different focal points.
See the 97 patents here: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=%22magic+leap%22.AANM.&Page=Prev&OS=AANM/%22magic%2520leap%22&RS=AANM/%22magic%2520leap%22
See the full story here: http://fortune.com/2015/09/01/magic-leap-patents-contact-lens/