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Magic Leap Finally Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles (rollingstone.com)
Joosy writes: After raising $1.9 billion dollars, Magic Leap finally shows off it's "mixed-reality" goggles. Was the wait worth it? Rolling Stone gets a look: "The revelation, the first real look at what the secretive, multi-billion dollar company has been working on all these years is the first step toward the 2018 release of the company's first consumer product. It also adds some insight into why major companies like Google and Alibaba have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into Magic Leap, and why some researchers believe the creation could be as significant as the birth of the Internet."
Brian Crecente recalls his first experience with Magic Leap's technology: "This first, oversized demo dropped me into a science-fiction world, playing out an entire scene that was, in this one case, augmented with powerful, hidden fans, building-shaking speakers and an array of computer-controlled, colorful lighting. It was a powerful experience, demonstrating how a theme park could potentially craft rides with no walls or waits. Most importantly, it took place among the set-dressing of the stage -- the real world props that cluttered the ground and walls around me -- and while it didn't look indistinguishable from reality, it was close. To see those creations appearing not on the physical world around me, as if it were some sort of animated sticker, but in it, was startling..."
Brian Crecente recalls his first experience with Magic Leap's technology: "This first, oversized demo dropped me into a science-fiction world, playing out an entire scene that was, in this one case, augmented with powerful, hidden fans, building-shaking speakers and an array of computer-controlled, colorful lighting. It was a powerful experience, demonstrating how a theme park could potentially craft rides with no walls or waits. Most importantly, it took place among the set-dressing of the stage -- the real world props that cluttered the ground and walls around me -- and while it didn't look indistinguishable from reality, it was close. To see those creations appearing not on the physical world around me, as if it were some sort of animated sticker, but in it, was startling..."
because a slideshow with some still images is nothing more than vaporware.
Americans are no more ready for AR than R.
"This first, oversized demo dropped me into a science-fiction world, playing out an entire scene that was, in this one case, augmented with powerful, hidden fans, building-shaking speakers and an array of computer-controlled, colorful lighting. It was a powerful experience, demonstrating how a theme park could potentially craft rides with no walls or waits. Most importantly, it took place among the set-dressing of the stage -- the real world props that cluttered the ground and walls around me -- and while it didn't look indistinguishable from reality, it was close. To see those creations appearing not on the physical world around me, as if it were some sort of animated sticker, but in it, was startling..."
If these googles can induce the perception of moving air and sound vibrations, then I am impressed. Same with the g-forces that are a huge part of amusement park rides.
If these goggle can't actually do any of that, then I am a little baffled at the design of this demo.
Wake me when we have Rainbows End style AR.
But I'm more interested in a replacement for conventional displays, not a new AR-based gaming system. I'd love to see this thing running the Meta 2 Workspace.
Long article that doesn't say much of anything. We have VR its not hot people dont care about it much. Im guessing this isn't much different other then its looks better to wear.Its not life changing tech though maybe for the handicapped??
Jack of all trades,master of none
LOTS of unanswered questions about MR (Mixed Reality) -- almost enough to go Meh:
* Article mentioned a narrow FOV (Field of View) Is 10 degrees? 30 degrees? 60 Degrees?
So did they solve the naseau?
* What exactly are the photonic chips processing?
* What are the specs?
* How much?
Time to wait till 2019 when, hopefully, they have shipped in late 2018 ...
We have VR its not hot people dont care about it much.
A) That's not really a true, there is a pretty good subset of people that like VR. However...
B) AR is much different than VR, simply because you can really see your surroundings with a computer overlay. That makes it far more practical to use for most people as they don't have to clear out a giant empty space for it in order to move, and potentially movement could be unlimited. The best AR systems can "see" your environment so they can skin anything around you to complete the illusion you are somewhere else, so for instance your entire house could become a zombie-hunting scenario with zombies behind random doors... much cooler than a VR scenario where you are just exploring without touch a pre-baked environment.
Or imagine sitting at a table and having virtual people sitting all around you, talking with you as if they were there.
The hololens is already really good at this, but has currently a limited field of view and is very expensive. It seems like the tech in Magic Leap has a much better FOV, and also much better effective resolution.
There's really room in the world for both things, VR and AR are kind of for different things. But like I said AR is really much more practical for most people and I think will thus be wildly more popular than VR has been.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Maybe. Or probably not.
But holy christ they look silly.
I'll bet 10 to 1 the lightfield technology they keep blabbing about but not giving any detail about is a laser projector (or a 2D array of laser projectors) shooting photons directly into your retina. It's obvious that this is the only effective way to do the job.
Snapchat called, they want their spectacles back.
Now you don't have to read the whole article. âï
"mixed reality"? "rose colored glasses"? jesus.
Regardless of the fanfaire..
The cake is a Lie..
MagicLeap Tech is nothing new, other than the presentation.
MagicLeap has to be the most screwed up place to work. Rife with Nepotism, favoritism, and over reaching issues of control, which in turn creates an adversarial recipe for shared mutual destruction..
As with any company, there are Some Good people whom work there, caught up in the dream, the vacuum. Some whom mean well. Some whom are even successful.
But when the dust settles, a dildo is still a dildo: Black, white, pink, or other..
may the future be brighter making the development of the Grand Ideas a more splendid event.
If anyone isn't quite sure what the fuss is about, go and read up about light fields. The way most modern VR, or basically any 3D you've ever seen, works at the moment is that it just drops two slightly different images in front of either eye and tries to trick your brain into thinking it's actually seeing a three dimensional image. It's crappy, like we've all experienced. It gives some people headaches. There is no concept of true depth of field and you can't actually get to choose what you focus on. The processed images decide what you focus on and it's extremely unnatural because it forces your eyes to see the image from a fixed perspective. A proper light field generator will provide information to your eyes in the same way that you see objects in the real world. It will allow your eyes to focus and process the image naturally, in a way that stereoscopic images never can. In practice it's the difference between seeing something on a screen and seeing something in a way that seems like it is really there, in the space in front of you. If they've actually pulled this off then it's genuinely revolutionary. No more headaches, no more tired eyes, no more feeling like the 3D that you are watching is undeniably a generated image. It's what we kind of imagined VR was always going to be but without quite knowing what that meant.
Comparing this to the birth of the internet? Bullshit sensors went straight to 11.
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Unfortunately there is no video in the article, yet it sounds like a high-end, glasses-based upgrade to Apple’s ARKit. The latter is actually already pretty cool (you can find cool youtube videos of someone finding a portal door to a parallel world), and while I see it mainly great for gaming, Ikea actually makes some of its furniture visible in AR, that is useful.
... face it, if IT is that real and form-factor, the military complex will take this and weaponize it.
Their barmaids must be incredibly realistic! LOL.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/20/magic_leap
Nobody is talking about bitcoin here, you boring twat.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
from the sound of it this would have been great groundbreaking tech.... 5 years ago. seems pretty meh.. more of the same now.
The key point I got from the article is that they are creating or trying to create an artificial light field emitter. If this is true, the implications are staggering. Having a light field emitter would pretty much solve all hard visual problems like depth, resolution, lens artifacts etc. found in the classical systems like Rift and Vive. So if this is really what they are making, then I can easily see why they got the big bucks.
I guess, Magic Leap's Stock Price might, just might, take a little plunge.
You want a usable Augmented Reality System then spend the $15k for the MS Hololense system. From what I've seen (actually used product) it's really useable if the damn AR is done right and that's the god damn rub. It has to be done right to be usable - otherwise it's just going to end up being another fucking mess of Pokemon-Go out there.
RolingStone?? Really???
How much did Magicleap pay for this???
Whom is Joosy and how much did that individual pay for this publication?
this is not news, fake and contrived.
This is an advertisement for a product. Nothing new, how does this compare to the others?
Occulus
Samsung
HTC/VIVE
Microsoft
With Google Daydream going to the pasture and very a very limited place in society, how can this be news for nerds, or any one else for that matter?
Help us in the community to understand the importance of this product announcement?
this is not news, fake and contrived.
The tech is cool, the idea is just that an idea, although there is really nothing new here, perhaps Pompous and Arrogance (as people say that may be indicative of other LACKING things) may be found through the article. Others just pasout at the sheer verbosity of this perfectly legalized product release.
Like every new tech/vaporware it has its up's and downs, nothing is perfect.
With some it's less apparent than others, depending on the amount of proposed immersion the individual is wiling to allow themselves, right?
or perhaps I could be off base alltogether right?
Afterall I'm just a cog in a wheel, in a pond with several wheels, all of which obscured by them selves, cranking away at a better proposed reality..