INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Magic Leap has announced they are acquiring Computes, a decentralized mesh computing startup
Terms of the deal weren&t disclosed.From Magic Leap blog post:From the beginning, Chris Matthieu and Jade Meskill started Computes, Inc
based on the principle of enabling the next generation of computing
We believe Magic Leap is the perfect home to achieve this visionWhy would Magic Leap want to get their hands on this company Well, it no
secret that building a &digital layer& on top of the real world is more than a little compute-heavy; mesh computing offers an attractive
future for leveraging the power of grouped systems to push resources to the devices that need it most.The company website does a
not-so-great job of explaining what exactly they do, but here a blip fromone of the company whitepapers:The Lattice protocol allows
authorized computers to self-organize into a mesh computer, limited only by the number and power of the members
Lattice will intelligently allocate work to the best members of the mesh, based on the requirements of the task.This is an interesting idea
for AR headset systems, where eventually most of them may be in standby on average and could theoretically push their compute power to
Perhaps more likely is offsite PCs with beefy internals offering the headsets a punch.On the far less sexy side, this could also just be a
play for the startup to drill down some of its backend services.If you&re still curious about what they do and are interested in some even
more mildly dubious explaining, check out this video from Computes& CEO, which only mildly resembles a video from the Dharma Initiative.
