What happened to Magic Leap's advanced photonic lightfield chip? I thought the thing that made Magic Leap special was their light field tech, but this just appears to be stacked wave guides, which other than having 2 focal planes seems to be the same tech as Hololens.
Magic Leap One now available for $2295
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#22Are they planning a sort of technical deep dive/developer Q&A? The page reeks of marketing and is extremely lax on any kind of substantial details that would make me want to purchase one of these things.
I've enjoyed my vive and rift since they both came out, and I'd love to try this gadget out. It doesn't appear to be worth the cost at face value though.
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#23I remember the first articles about this super secretive start up from not the Silicon Valley, that did some super amazing stuff, loads of VC-cash and all that. This thing now looks really underwhelming. The pages full of marketing talk to present basically another (better, maybe) HoloLens.
What's wrong with being a better Hololens?
Nothing wrong, but given all the buzz I expected something incredible. This right now has already be done, by Microsoft, so I don't really see how they could possibly compete in this market.
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#24What happened to Magic Leap's advanced photonic lightfield chip? I thought the thing that made Magic Leap special was their light field tech, but this just appears to be stacked wave guides, which other than having 2 focal planes seems to be the same tech as Hololens.
The chip plus nano machines that enter your eyes cortex are coming in the next round of funding.
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#26Any advantages over the hololens
It has two focal planes instead of one, which helps with depth perception a lot.
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#27Are they planning a sort of technical deep dive/developer Q&A? The page reeks of marketing and is extremely lax on any kind of substantial details that would make me want to purchase one of these things. I've enjoyed my vive and rift since they both came out, and I'd love to try this gadget out. It doesn't appear to be worth the cost at face value though.
I'm shocked, I say shocked, that something from Magic Leap could possibly be said to reek of marketing.
You should spend the next six minutes and seventeen seconds of your life watching this amazing piece of public relations magic that transparently unveils the deep truth of what Magic Leap is really all about:
The synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an engineering prototype that you can buy. Hololens was $3,000 and this is better than Hololens.
How is this better? You seem somewhat involved with them.
I'm just taking a break at work, chill.
https://magic-leap.reality.news/news/magic-leap-one-first-ha...
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with being a better Hololens?
Nothing wrong, but given all the buzz I expected something incredible. This right now has already be done, by Microsoft, so I don't really see how they could possibly compete in this market.
And Microsoft managed to ship Hololens without settling any sexual discrimination lawsuits. (Obviously they have better lawyers!)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/14/magic-lea...
https://mic.com/articles/168619/the-most-damning-allegations...
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/magic-leap-bias-suit-sexism-si...
>Thanks to Campbell's lawsuit, a whole new host of questions have arisen, as well as a sinking suspicion that the company is even more dysfunctional than previously thought. Excessive hype is one sign of a company possibly foundering due to mismanagement. Misogyny of the kind alleged by Campbell suggests dysfunction on a whole other level. As incidents of sexism in tech pile up, it's becoming clear that misogyny in the industry is both a moral travesty and a potential warning sign that a business is in trouble.