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This is essentially a reblog of the (paywalled) The Information article: https://www.theinformation.com/the-reality-behind-magic-leap
Sadly the way journalism works today is one outlet does a ton of time-consuming, expensive digging. Then within minutes of posting, every other outlet copies the story
I don't like pointing out typos, but this one is in the title and should be fixed: it should be "than".
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.
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), fig…
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
Two of the major unsolved problems he talks about are latency and the ability to draw black - I would be surprised if magic leap had solved both of these alone and in secret.
Their vapid press releases didn't inspire confidence either.
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.
Edit: On second thought you maybe meeting the exact definition of Vaporware in that they are not manufacturing it yet[1]. No indication that they won't be able to though.
This is essentially a reblog of the (paywalled) The Information article: https://www.theinformation.com/the-reality-behind-magic-leap
Edit: possibly $400USD/year from https://hunterwalk.com/2013/12/17/400-for-the-information-is...
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), fig…
A trick i've heard at least one of the VR devices is doing isn't re-rendering the entire scene but since most of the movement is just head tracking, it renders a larger buffer and scrolls around in that buffer between frames to get a quicker response.
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), fig…
Is there any AR headgear which displays the real world optically and can selectively darken the real world? Magic Leap pretended to do that, but now it appears they can't. You could, of course, do it by focusing the real scene on a focal plane, like a camera, using a monochrome LCD panel as a shutter, and refocusing the scene to infinity. But the optics for that require some length, which means bulky headgear like night vision glasses. Maybe with nonlinear optics or something similarly exotic it might be possible. But if there was a easy way to do this, DoD would be using it for night vision gear.