Magic Leap’s technology may be years away from completion

Hmm interesting. So the article makes it sound like one of their faked videos was used to bring in software developers but if they come in and it's simply not working anywhere near the level shown, wouldn't that seem suspicious?

I don't think this necessarily means the company is a scam or anything like that but it seems a little...suspect at least to me if I was interviewing with them.

Curious if the community has an issue with it or not.

Actual title should be "Magic leap lied about a video demonstration of its tech". Or Magic Leap still noticeably inferior to the Microsoft Hololens

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So VR is hard enough - to avoid jitter that makes users feel sick you have to respond to a user's head movement, render a new frame with the new information the user should see, respond to any button presses, then draw the frame, in under 14-20ms.

Magic Leap was always a much more difficult problem... they have to respond to a user's head movement, parse the scene the user is looking at (which could be anything), figure out what to draw and where to draw it on the user's environment, then render, all in the same 14-20ms window.

Compounding that they have to do it with a much weaker CPU/GPU/battery than Oculus and friends, which use a phone, or are tethered to a PC with a $1,000 GPU. You wear Magic Leap on your head, no cables.

On its face I was always sort of surprised to hear about the good demos; it always seemed like such a difficult problem, and I know the VR folks are having a tough enough time with it.

Wow. So if Magic Leap is vaporware, does that leave Microsoft as the only ones publicly making progress in AR? Plenty of companies are shipping VR, but AR ends up being the future, HoloLens is building up quite a lead.