Microsoft’s Peggy Johnson joins Magic Leap as CEO

Peggy Johnson takes the controls of Magic Leap. (Source: Peggy Johnson’s Twitter profile)   Magic Leap is a company that stirs passion—good and bad. The company was among the many companies that appeared over the last decade with the promise of enabling AR using lightfield technology. The company was a high-flyer with attitude attracting billions in investment, and spending millions for publicity while never revealing much of anything until the doors fell off. The company finally unveiled a headset for $2000 that did not significantly improve on the AR technology being offered by less-well funded competitors, most of which have