Live data from Hacker News

Inside Magic Leap

forbes.com

51–60 of 220 posts

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#51
post #43

Has there ever been a company that built this kind of hype over years and then in the end actually delivered something truly revolutionary? Judging from companies like Cuil (not sure if the name is right), Segway or Color they will fizzle out once their product gets on the market, if ever.

If past history is the only thing to go on you are correct. However there are quite a few level A players investing huge sums of money in this. I have to think they are paying attention.

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#52

I'm thinking that Hololens rev. 2 will be out before Magic Leap rev. 1 is out and will be cheaper. So unless Magic Leap is an order of magnitude better than Hololens, they have failed. Say what you will about Microsoft, at least they already have a platform on which this "new era of computing" can be based: Windows. That is to say, it makes tremendous more sense to evolve from what we have now into the "new era of co…

Hololense = 1268 * 720 pixels per eye

Magicleap = supposedly infinite (or they don't exist at all?)

Hololens says they have 2.3 million “light points”. I don't know much about light points other than a few paragraphs, but I wonder how Magicleap actually measures light density and how/if it compares or correlates.

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#53
post #46

I want to believe Magic Leap is going to deliver. With investments from tech companies AND banks AND movie studios, and with half-a-dozen R&D outposts all over the world, it's hard to believe these investors just bought into vaporware.

Having worked with VC's before, there isn't always a clear domain understanding of the problem they are investing in. Additionally, once funding snowballs, later investors can incorrectly assume due diligence has been taken care of by earlier investors.

I would expect that we've seen what MagicLeap is targeting in both Google Glass and later Microsoft HoloLens. So conceptually the systems and optics are proven at some early stage. Instead of projecting into a lens that is then reflected into the eye, they claim they are projecting directly into the eye. Either way the optics should be similar. This means that as with any AR (instead of VR) system, they will not be able to project the absence of light in a brightly lit environment. (Creating shadows/darkness should be impossible)

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#54
post #41

I believe Magic Leap has a new kind of display technology, but the article is pretty bullshit-sounding with statements like this: "Throw out your PC, your laptop and your mobile phone, because the computing power you need will be in your glasses, and they can make a display appear anywhere, at any size you like." Yeah sure, they not only made a new display tech but integrated the computing power of desktops or laptop…

Supposedly, because it's only rendering a small portion of your field of view at any given time, the compute resource required to power it is substantially less. I seem to also remember reading about it not using a standard pixel-filling kind of rendering, and using something else that requires less power instead.

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#56
post #49
post #41

I believe Magic Leap has a new kind of display technology, but the article is pretty bullshit-sounding with statements like this: "Throw out your PC, your laptop and your mobile phone, because the computing power you need will be in your glasses, and they can make a display appear anywhere, at any size you like." Yeah sure, they not only made a new display tech but integrated the computing power of desktops or laptop…

I assume the GTX 1080 lives in the cloud. We shall see I guess.

Can't. The bandwidth wouldn't be enough.

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#57

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...

They've always been based in Florida. They have offices in the Bay Area and apparently they're building one in Seattle, too.

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#58

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…

If these discrepancies have made you frumpy perhaps technology that lets you easily try on new clothes is just the thing.

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#59

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...

Magic Leap was always in Florida? They are known for that. Even Devine, their chief games guy, talks about not wanting to move to Florida years ago when it was a tiny company.

Re: Inside Magic Leap

#60

Here's a peek at your future.... https://vimeo.com/166807261

Honestly it would take that level of visual fidelity and environmental awareness for the leap to live up to the hype and expectations.
Post reply on HN