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Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is 'Disappointing' (digg.com)
From a story on Digg, via DaringFireball: Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality company that has raised $2.3 billion, finally demoed its long-rumored, much-vaunted headset on Wednesday (and announced that the headset will ship this summer). It was disappointing. Magic Leap has promised big things -- remember the tiny elephant in your hands? Remember that whale jumping out of the gym floor? But the animations demonstrated on Wednesday fall short of those promises. Waaaay short. An executive with Magic Leap, which has long remained tight lipped on its roadmap and commercial availability of its products, said on a Twitch livestream this week that the Magic Leap One, a developer-geared headset, will ship this season. (Summer ends September 22, so the company has 10 weeks to meet its self-imposed deadline.)
Some people thought there would be 100 million headsets in use ... in six months from now.
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What is it with this blind faith in technotoys?
Hey Alejux, how am I supposed to "PM" you when there's no email?
How could something so mysterious not work the way they lied to us!
Looks like Knack to me!
Yet another data point showing that we're in another tech bubble.
It's 1999 all over again!
Next year during the Super Bowl expect sock puppets.
What is this, 2006?
That is unfortunate, but expected. It would b e really great if we had something that looked even remotely close to their demo.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Remember those three devices at the demo? Yup we shipped those. One went to our CEO. Another went to the traveling sales guy. And the engineers demanded their prototypes so we gave one back.
All shipped. And guess which season that was in? Yup, Summer. Goal met, booya!
The headline might as well read "Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is 'Disappointing' [to the Surprise of Absolutely Nobody]"
Actually to me those short demos were impressive. They demonstrate the AR interacting with the physical world (walls, hands, etc). I never saw the original marketing demos like the "whale" or "elephant" or anything though.
Hype and bullshit fantastical claims rarely translate into viable real world products.
All other VR companies will have to pay oppressive fees for "fast lanes".
Magic Leap doesn't have to work well. It has work well enough and be the only choice.
Made in Florida by seniors for seniors.
It's 1999 all over again!
Really? I haven't noticed Uber drivers giving out stock tips.
Goodbye, Slashdot!
Ok, so the animations are disappointing, who cares? What's the technology like?
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I'm pretty sceptical about new tech, but how can you judge this based on a 2D video aimed at developers? Isn't the cool thing about Magic Leap how realistic the 3D experience is compared to conventional VR? This video actually showed exactly what devs need to see. The tech working in a real environment with a basic example.
This is a shitty click bait article with no actual content.
Everything needs a bit of magic.
You can imagine it is actually working just as you did when you were a kid.
This is the Magic Leap you need...
Two disappointments from the video: latency (the rock reacts to the hand well after the hand was there) and the translucency (everything is 'ghosty', a persistent problem for AR to present 'real' seeming things).
However, it did seem to do a serviceable job with fixed hard surfaces (floor and wall) and would probably be good enough to do the 'whale out of the floor' animation.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
More vaporware. That happens all the time. $2.3B? The idiocy of some is vast.
Obviously, there is at least some demand because people are making them; but I really can't see VR being all that popular (beyond a fad hype at first). It feels to me like one of those things, that, whereas "cool tech", not something with a lot of sticking power.
Remember the Wii, the Kinect for Xbox. Those were really cool at the time- and for a while incredibly popular... but people went back to a keypad and a screen. VR will be cool and aweinspiring at first- and maybe for 5 years will be popular and a must have... but I can't see it really taking off- not this generation anyway. Who really wants to strap something to their face to play a game?
After an initial success it will go the way of the Wii and the Kinect.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
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I was really hoping that I could have a virtual Juicero machine in my kitchen with this device. I find the cold pressed juice really helps my Theranos numbers.
Are soon parted. All you need is a good story and a slick prototype.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Anybody else think they accidentally linked the wrong channel and were watching some Grateful Dead fan podcast?
I don't see the appeal until the projection scheme is unobtrusive; aside from some specialty applications, nobody is going to want to hold up a phone or ipad either.
No problem pouring one out for the early adopters funding things, but nobody wants to wear stupid shit on their head while they're interacting with the real world. Figure out how to do this with a contact lens? Yeah, now you're talking.
More anxious to see 4K VR, and that doesn't need materials advances to happen.
..don't panic
I have noticed Chinese advising that buying property that has barely started construction is "the best investment there is"
The demos sensor-wise don't look like anything better than what the hololens could achieve (and maybe not as good, though it's hard to say if that's hardware or demo programming). The field of view of the AR looks way better than the last Hololens I tried (the Hololens just had an AR overlay over a fairly small portion of what you could see in front of you and the ML demos displayed an edge-to-edge red line overlay).
However I always thought the point of Magic Leap was a much better DISPLAY, which not of us here can judge without trying the actual device. Looking at videos is not going to tell you what it is like to look through the googles, it may be that actually viewing the display is person looks loads better than current VR/AR gear.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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$15 with four days to go. Will address a lot of questions.
I have noticed Chinese advising that buying property that has barely started construction is "the best investment there is"
Started construction? Around here they sell condos not only before the old building is torn down but when the selling company seems to have no plan to actually build it themselves, they collect deposits then sell the project to someone else if they can find a buyer.
Wake me up in 10 years. I want a holodeck or nothing!
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