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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.)
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.
When he blocked the rock with his hand the rock was rendered over top of his hand, not behind it. That totally breaks the immersiveness of the AR.
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