In December, Magic Leap announced plans to focus on selling technology to businesses rather than consumers, aligning more closely with Johnson’s experience at Microsoft.
On Monday, Johnson, 58, said she had reached out to Rony Abovitz, Magic Leap’s founder and chief executive, who had announced in May that he would step down. She said she saw opportunities in Magic Leap’s “spatial” technology, which projects digital images into the real world.
Johnson, a former executive at Qualcomm who joined Microsoft six years ago, compared the spatial technology’s promise to the early days of cellular technology and cloud computing.
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