AR, VR, MR: Making Sense of Magic Leap and the Future of Reality

There are so many different types of experiences, it can be tough to know which one you're living through.

There are so many different types of goggles-on experiences these days, it can be tough to know which one you're subjecting yourself to. In virtual reality, everything is make-believe. In augmented reality, there are virtual objects overlaid on top of real objects, but they're just little suspended movies---you can't interact. Once you can interact with those not-really-there objects, that's the realm of mixed reality. In this video, WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin explains the details, and the future implications, of each.