Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz interview — The Magicverse will have an ethical foundation

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2019
Updated June 18, 2025
16 min

Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap, still has to build a big base of augmented reality glasses users and the Magicverse platform that will create our shared reality in the future. But he wants to deliberately create an ethical foundation for the technology, which he calls an “emergent system of systems.”

In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Abovitz said his company is working with partners to build the Magicverse, which will be accessed via Magic Leap’s Magic Leap One AR glasses.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.