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Magic Leap Offers a First Look At Its Mixed Reality OS (cnet.com)
TechCrunch's Lucas Matney describes the Lumin operating system that will power Magic Leap's upcoming Magic Leap One mixed reality headset: Alright, first, this is what the Magic Leap One home screen will apparently look like, it's worth noting that it appears that Magic Leap will have some of its own stock apps on the device, which was completely expected but they haven't discussed much about. Also worth noting is that Magic Leap's operating system by and large looks like most other operating systems, they seem to be well aware that flat interfaces are way easier to navigate so you're not going to be engaging with 3D assets just for the sake of doing so. The company seems to be distinguishing between two basic app types for developers: immersive apps and landscape apps. Landscape apps like what you see in the image above, appear to be Magic Leap's version of 2D where interfaces are mostly flat but have some depth and live inside a box called a prism that fits spatially into your environment. It seems that you'll be able to have several of these running simultaneously. Immersive apps, on the other hand, like the game title, Dr. Grordbort -- which Magic Leap has been teasing for years -- respond to the geometry of the space that you are in and is thus called an immersive app.
Moving beyond apps, the company also had a good deal to share about how you interact with what's happening in the headset. Magic Leap will have a companion smartphone app that you can type into, you can connect a bluetooth keyboard and there will also be an onscreen keyboard with dictation capabilities. One of the big highlights of Magic Leap tech is that you'll be able to share perspectives of these apps in a multi-player experience which we now know is called "casting," apps that utilize these feature will just have a button that you can press to share an experience with a contact.
Moving beyond apps, the company also had a good deal to share about how you interact with what's happening in the headset. Magic Leap will have a companion smartphone app that you can type into, you can connect a bluetooth keyboard and there will also be an onscreen keyboard with dictation capabilities. One of the big highlights of Magic Leap tech is that you'll be able to share perspectives of these apps in a multi-player experience which we now know is called "casting," apps that utilize these feature will just have a button that you can press to share an experience with a contact.
A collection of beautiful, completely incomprehensible symbols!
Of all the hype and billions invested, the few actual demos of actual game play have been extremely underwhelming. The graphics are poor, and it doesn't really look like it's interacting with the 3d environment. But it may be a different story when you wear the ugly device.
Well, given the time in one of their screenshots, now I know why it's been taking so long.
It makes even less sense than KDE. I expected something like the Microsoft Bob apartment.
This is the MagicLeap mixed reality game video that was released 3 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
LOL
I just want a way to replace one or more of my monitors with a heads up display. Will it do that?
Billions of dollars spent to replicate what Microsoft already has, and no one really wants.
The time stamp of the home screen is 4:20.
Would were! Should is! Could be! And live a hundred times three.
These types of glasses have been out in one form or another for a while. I have a pair of Epson BT-300. They work fine, but its like epson gave up on any software updates for the last few years. You can root atleast and its useful around the house. Hell, I could even get some cardboard apps to work with it. But other than the novelty, the interface is horrid and would never use it as a main device.
Granted its underpowered from what these guys want to do, but I just hope it will be open sourced enough for apps to get on it.
If you looked at the pictures then you know that was the most realistic looking leather couch that you have ever seen! ;)
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Really seems wholly unimpressive, they could have saved billions and bought a HoloLens a few years ago and put together the same demos for a fraction of the cost.
I, for one, am ecstatic that an OS that supports mixing that which is real, with that which is not, is nearing release. I have been waiting for years for someone to produce an OS that will let me use my imaginary number-keypad, rather than just the real-number keypad.
The 'magic leap' will occur if their vaporware ever makes it to the fucking market.
Augmented reality has applications in production and is already being leveraged there [1] [2]. The commercial/industrial space is an easier sell because no one cares if you look like a dork or it's unwieldy (to a point) if it actually improves productivity. Retail sales are never going to take off until you don't look like a tool wearing one and they work in direct sunlight... at that point they'll sell like hotcakes (especially after I introduce my app that overlays everyone else on the subway with (or no one at all)).
As an AR/VR professional I've been watching these folks over-promise and under-deliver for years. Their recent twitch webcasts have been somewhere between "deeply underwhelming" and "a complete joke". These screenshots are, I'm sure, composites that don't actually show what the real experience is like. With all of the high-dollar marketing flash they've been showing since 2015 (none of which has had any basis in reality) I will not believe anything until I have a device in-hand.
"Alright, first, this is what the Magic Leap One home screen will apparently look like[...]"
What, a screenshot of somebody's crappy Air B&B apartment?
SD will have made a literal small fortune from pushing this BS here.
Yep, they've probably literally made pennies.
"they seem to be well aware that flat interfaces are way easier to navigate"
According to WHOM? 'Flat' interfaces look like crap, don't offer affordances, and are always MORE difficult to use than interfaces that use 3D buttons, etc.
... at the real world behind it. Those 'flat' icons are incredibly difficult to see and understand. Apparently this is the way forward for 'user interface design' nowadays... a bunch of idiots who haven't designed a new interface ELEMENT in the past twenty years. That includes Microsoft and Apple.
Rumor has it that it seamlessly integrates with The Phantom game console from Infinium Labs.
I can't wait!
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