



For now, only tiny patches of the mirrorworld are visible through AR headsets. Someday soon, every place and thing in the real world-every street, lamppost, building, and room-will have its full-size digital twin in the mirrorworld. The mirrorworld doesn’t yet fully exist, but it is coming. I actually got choked up.” What Savage encountered on the other side of the glasses was a glimpse of the mirrorworld. And then it swims by my windows-on the outside of my building! So the glasses scanned my room and it knew that my windows were portals and it rendered the whale as if it were swimming down my street. “I turned it on and I could hear a whale,” he says, “but I couldn’t see it. After duly noting the hype and backlash that have dogged the product, Savage describes an epiphany he had while trying on the headset at home, upstairs in his office. In 2018, one of his highlights was a set of Magic Leap augmented reality goggles. Every December, Adam Savage-star of the TV show MythBusters-releases a video reviewing his “ favorite things” from the previous year.
