The DeanBeat: Magic Leap gave us a taste of spatial computing, but it could still blow it

Magic Leap did not mention during its coming-out party in Los Angeles this week that it has raised $2.4 billion in funding since 2011. That’s because that fact might prompt people to hold the company to a higher standard for the revelation of its technology and applications for mixed reality, or the blending of animated digital information with the physical world.

Rony Abovitz, CEO and founder of the Florida company, has correctly identified spatial computing (which some people describe with the much less lofty words augmented reality) as a potential revolution in how humans interact with the world. But he didn’t really win a lot of new friends this week by opening the show in a weird way, with no product announcements for more than an hour.