I wonder if these (in contrast with the glasses you get for a 3D film) are usable in combination with normal glasses?
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#192They may be working on an Enron trading room demo....
More seriously I'm still hoping it will be amazing...
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I share the concern that there's still nothing too publically accessible, but the device itself isn't completely under wraps. The journalist in the Rolling Stone article[0] viewed a few demos built between the ML team, including one with Sigur Ros that's got a very small clip on youtube[1]. I suspect building a demo of this kind of tech that's remotely as impressive viewed on a website or youtube video is challenging…
The device is supposed to be in the hands of actual paying customers within a year and they don't even have pictures or video of it _doing something_. Sure it might not be perfect, but there's exactly zero evidence that this product isn't just a hollow chassis. If a demo at this point comes off as half baked, isn't that a gigantic red flag that this product isn't able to cash the checks that Magic Leap is writing? Ni…
I agree that it is concerning, but I don't see how an entire multi page article of someone's hands-on experience with the device qualifies as "exactly zero evidence this product isn't just a hollow chassis."
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neither VR nor AR will provide effective alternatives to physical monitors for 8+ hours a day of software development or other knowledge work. VR blocks your view so you have to keep removing the headset to talk to a colleague or find your coffee cup. AR just overlays on the real world background making it really unpleasant to read or edit code or documents. I expect most of us will still be using 2-D physical monito…
AR can also selectively block out the background to give you a virtual monitor. The advantage is that it can go transparent where required so that you can find that coffeecup or talk to your colleague without taking off the headset.
I don't think AR can do full opacity yet, with is the problem. You couldn't block out the background enough
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#196Say it with me: vaporware! I’d love to be proven wrong, but there is absolutely no way they’ll ship a day before December 31, 2018. And I’ll be shocked if even that happens.
They’ve never shown a public demo because the private hardware demo is very likely built with insanely more expensive kit than they could ever sell to a normal person.
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To showcase it they'd need actual working hardware instead of 3D renders...
I mean, if the theory that they’ve faked everything so far is true, then it could be possible for them to fake a demo.
I'd wager they have something which is just enough to get people with deep pockets to give them a pile of cash on the premise of "imagine what it could be with only another billion dollars!" but is utterly underwhelming for a mass-market consumer product.
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#198Is it weird that the first thing we see in a new product unveiling isn't the product?
I'm having trouble thinking of other, decent reveals that would choose this marketing angle.
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#199The old demo videos from a year or two ago showed that the Magic Leap could not do opaque black. Black = transparent on their clear screens. If that's still the case, then every single example image on their site is a misrepresentation. They all show black and indicate the Magic Leap can do opacity. I call bullshit until I see that they've solved that problem.
Just put a backing LCD in the line of sight so it can darken. And project on top of that. I think it is possible to solve.
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After going out to see a movie for the first time in a few years this past weekend, I can't really picture many of the overweight families I saw fully reclined shoveling hamburgers into their faces wanting to get up and "interact" with a movie.
But could you picture a set in the round with all of the audience sitting in a circle in a tiered auditorium, and a set being rendered over the audience and actors performing in the middle? Shakespeare in the round would be given a fully immersive experience, and it didn't require any person to move at all... it simply means that from the perspective of each individual the set is fully complete and hides the audience…
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