Peggy Johnson, CEO of Magic Leap, and CTO Daniel Diez.
Peggy Johnson, CEO of Magic Leap, and CTO Daniel Diez.
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AR gets its big moment in the spotlight | Magic Leap CEO

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 12 min

Apple CEO Tim Cook is likely talking about his mixed reality headset today. But Peggy Johnson, CEO of Magic Leap, upstaged him last week during a talk at Augmented World Expo, a trade show attended by thousands of XR industry followers.

Johnson did something that Cook is not likely to do. Before a crowd of hundreds, she was very transparent. She showed off an MRI of her torso, as viewed via a Magic Leap 2 augmented reality headset. It showed with precision what her liver looked like — her CTO Daniel Diez said it was looking good — as a way of showing the kind of advances that XR headsets can bring to healthcare.

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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.