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Don't get me wrong, this could be incredibly cool in a vacuum. But reality often has different needs.
I hope I'm wrong.
So clearly the author is sympathetic to the aura that Magic Leap is cultivating through secrecy and selective media engagements: > When it arrives–best guess is within the next 18 months–it could usher in a new era of computing, a next-generation interface we’ll use for decades to come. ...which may be a pretty valid statement or sentiment overall, but later in the article, we get to the crux of the "potential" futur…
I personally think this would be really cool, and would facilitate entirely new modes of interaction with people in this field e.g. designers and sales workers. Imagine being able to connect with a clothing designer remotely, and have them model you in a virtual outfit before a mirror, with an practically infinite vocabulary of color, texture, and pattern at their disposal. A 2-way conversation with a design professional with a vastly accelerated prototype-feedback loop.
No, I think this would be totally awesome.
So clearly the author is sympathetic to the aura that Magic Leap is cultivating through secrecy and selective media engagements: > When it arrives–best guess is within the next 18 months–it could usher in a new era of computing, a next-generation interface we’ll use for decades to come. ...which may be a pretty valid statement or sentiment overall, but later in the article, we get to the crux of the "potential" futur…
Also people are very "forgiving" if things seem to wiggle a bit in the world but looking at the Google Tango device this weekend I got to see some of the challenges of keeping registration of the pixels high. Its frustrating if your ruler end point is "jiggling" a bit close to the spot where you want to start a measurement.
So without good registration you get eye fatigue like you used to get with pilots flying long range on bumpy flights constantly looking at instruments. Only in the case of pilots they can look outside to the clouds (which don't "bump" in space).
Ok - it seems that they 'absolutely' have something bewildering, and eye-popping. There are enough 'no information' testimonials by smart people to get that. BUT I'm still pretty weary of billions getting pumped into a business that remains unproven. + Maybe development is very expensive + Maybe the goggles cost to much + Maybe they just don't have quite enough content to justify the high costs + Maybe the experience…
>The centerpiece of Magic Leap’s technology is a head-mounted display, but the final product should fit into a pair of spectacles. When you’re wearing the device, it doesn’t block your view of the world; the hardware projects an image directly onto your retina through an optics system built into a piece of semitransparent glass (the product won’t fry your eyeballs; it’s replicating the way we naturally observe the world instead of forcing you to stare at a screen).
This is purely my impression, but reading the line that says "the final product should..." leads me to believe they still have significant development hurdles that have been unconquered thus far, and being coy about the release window (the journalist speculated 18 months, the CEO just went with "soon-ish") encourages me to read between the lines. Others may interpret the line differently - that's fine - but I'm simply sharing my impression. Lots of things "should" work the way their visionary has in mind...
I've been hearing rumors about these guys for years and it never seems to be any more than what's in this article-- "we saw some special effects and our wallets flipped themselves out of our back pockets onto the table and began spewing money". People so often underestimate the difficulty of productizing significant UI changes, not realizing that getting content to migrate to the new shiny will be at least as hard as…
Maybe Magic Leap has the same types of engineers [does Graeme have the same reputation as hyper productive dev?], but there are reasons Carmack has this reputation [1].
And I've known and worked with people like this. People who are utterly relentless. Insanely productive. And honestly? I would always bet on them. Every single time. It's just a major key that I don't know anything about on the Magic Leap team.
[1]: http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/27/how-john-carmack-pestered-...
Magic Leap goes against all the concepts we learned in "startup schools" - launch fast and iterate, get feedback, pivot and grow with your users etc.. they work away from the public for product they don't know if the public want. it's a bet, i hope it will pay off.
Magic Leap has been bleeding talent as a result of their relocating from the Bay Area to Florida [1]. As I understand it, this decision was made by and for one of their (independently wealthy) founders. [1] http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/careers/fl-magic-leap-n...
This article brings up a big issue: even if Magic Leap fails to deliver, they just might own all of the relevant patents. This could make AR needlessly expensive for decades.
At the time the Mayo case was decided, there was some uncertainty over whether it applied only to natural principles (laws of nature) or more generally to patent eligibility of all abstract ideas and general principles, including those involved in software patents. The Alice decision confirmed that the test was general.
Magic Leap goes against all the concepts we learned in "startup schools" - launch fast and iterate, get feedback, pivot and grow with your users etc.. they work away from the public for product they don't know if the public want. it's a bet, i hope it will pay off.
That doesn't mean that it is wrong, necessarily, but that it isn't always exactly applicable.
Ok - it seems that they 'absolutely' have something bewildering, and eye-popping. There are enough 'no information' testimonials by smart people to get that. BUT I'm still pretty weary of billions getting pumped into a business that remains unproven. + Maybe development is very expensive + Maybe the goggles cost to much + Maybe they just don't have quite enough content to justify the high costs + Maybe the experience…
I remember that we were going to revamp existing cities and build new cities in accordance to this wonderful transportation device that would change everything, of which I cannot recall the name. I currently see them used as joke props in movies.