Many were wowed by the footage showing whales crashing through the floor of a gym and expected to arrive in 2016.

Now it seems that the company is finally releasing the $2,295 Magic Leap One. For now, it will be available for purchase in limited US markets.

According to CNET the kit includes a high-powered, moon pie-shaped computer called the Lightpack, a handheld remote called Control and a steampunk-inspired headset with round lenses and patented optics. That's called Lightwear. There's just one thing: Regular folks like us aren't the intended audience. At least not yet.

This "Creator Edition," says CEO Abovitz, is part of a "controlled market release" in just a handful of cities in the United States for the developers and creative types Magic Leap will woo this year and next. The goal: for those makers to dream up the experiences (aka content) it needs to convince us to become Leapers. The company is already showing investors and partners prototypes of its smaller - and hopefully less expensive - Magic Leap Two and Magic Leap Three, but won't say when they'll be released.

Magic Leap, valued at $6.3 billion as of two months ago, counts Google, Alibaba, Warner Bros, AT&T, and several top Silicon Valley venture capital firms and about a dozen other big names as its investors. More about the product going on sale here.