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Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is 'Disappointing' (digg.com)

Posted by msmash on from the chaff-from-wheat dept.

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.)

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  1. Digg? by sproketboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is this, 2006?

    1. Re: Digg? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dude you're on slashdot still

    2. Re:Digg? by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

      No. Slashdot. It's 1998.

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  2. Unfortunate by phantomfive · · Score: 2

    That is unfortunate, but expected. It would b e really great if we had something that looked even remotely close to their demo.

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    1. Re:Unfortunate by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

      AR is very difficult because of lag. You need a sensor that accurately measures head movement or position. Measurements take time, transmitting the measurement takes time. Then you have to incorporate that into your 3D model, render it and send the rendered image to the screen.

      Unlike VR where the rendered image is all you can see, by now the background you are rendering over has already moved.

      Add on sensor error and jitter that needs smoothing out and AR is always gonna look pretty janky until we get those latencies down by an order of magnitude or more.

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  3. Shipped in Summer by orlanz · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

  4. AT&T Partnership/Investment by ebonum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  5. Re:Impressive to me by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  6. And! And! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It can test for 99% of all life-threatening diseases from only one drop of blood! And best of all, ANYONE'S BLOOD! Doesn't even have to be yours! This is technology, people. TECHNOLOGY! PEOPLE!

  7. Re: But don't forget by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 2

    You must be very young / inexperienced. Throughout the history of high technology many predictions fell short while in other areas there has been rapid advancement that nobody anticipated. While their predictions didn't hold up in this case there is no reason why it couldn't have happened. You seem to be saying that anyone who had hopes and faith in a technology that didn't take off as hoped is a rabid technology fanboi. That is ridiculous.

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  8. Re:But don't forget by mfnickster · · Score: 2

    You know what tech I would like?

    A robot arm that takes the disc out of the Xbox, puts it back on the shelf, and loads a diferent disc.

    THAT would be a game changer!

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