[3] He grew up playing Atari video games, and at the age of 8 he received his first computer which he says was an Apple Macintosh [Introduced in 1984, when he was 13].
[3] Abovitz attended the University of Miami, where he eventually obtained a master's degree in biomedical engineering.
The company maintains offices in New Zealand, in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Mountain View, California.
[8] In 2017, Abovitz spoke at the Black Tech Week annual conference, where he shared some of his goals for the Magic Leap company.
[3] In February 2018, Abovitz spoke at Recode’s Code Media conference about the augmented reality technology his company was developing.