Rony Abovitz

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Rony Abovitz is the founder of Magic Leap, and was previously CEO. He provided a drive at Magic Leap for embracing augmented reality technology.[1]

He is an appreciator of Douglas Engelbart.

Rony Abovitz got started in Mako Surgical, then pivoted to augmented reality through Enravel, which was adjacent to pivoting fiber optic endoscopes.

"XR/Spatial computing is an incredibly cool and amazing field - but needs billions to tens of billions to really move the field forward. Very odd - it looks to be a harder problem than space flight and most AI" - Rony Abovitz[2]

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