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Incremental improvement and $700 cheaper.
Over a 2+ year old product that is about to release a next version. At this stage, price is not a big deal. It's not close to consumer targeting. At least Microsoft gives some out to developers.
It's interesting reading startup literature regarding MVPs and iterating quickly and notice that almost none of it applies to the AR/VR space. Between Magic Leap and Ubiquty6 it seems like the most interesting players in AR are more notable for their funding rounds than for anything else. Magic Leap is rolling out their own hardware so it's more understandable but its really hard to justify spending $2K on a first ge…
Chiming in on the questions regarding use cases etc.: Aside from letting artists and engineers paint/sculpt/model more intuitively in 3D space, I still believe that the killer app for VR on the consumer side would be virtual tourism. Coming full circle to the View-Master [0], except this time people could practically live in their favorite fantasy or sci-fi locations. Imagine being part of the crew on the USS Enterpr…
Tourism is more of a social act than a content-consumption one. People brag when they go to the museum, but never when they binge-watch paintings at 3 AM on the Internet.
Chiming in on the questions regarding use cases etc.: Aside from letting artists and engineers paint/sculpt/model more intuitively in 3D space, I still believe that the killer app for VR on the consumer side would be virtual tourism. Coming full circle to the View-Master [0], except this time people could practically live in their favorite fantasy or sci-fi locations. Imagine being part of the crew on the USS Enterpr…
I'm skeptic about virtual tourism. We already have 4K HDR screens that display gorgeous pictures, but people still go to the museum to admire paintings. Tourism is more of a social act than a content-consumption one. People brag when they go to the museum, but never when they binge-watch paintings at 3 AM on the Internet.
I could see it really enriching the lives of those who can't afford to travel.
I do it myself sometimes with Google street view. I'll go "visit" some random place.
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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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w…
I don't understand how Magic Leap thought this was worthwhile. Nor do I understand how TEDx thought it was an idea worth spreading. Can anyone explain the logic behind it on both sides?
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I'm skeptic about virtual tourism. We already have 4K HDR screens that display gorgeous pictures, but people still go to the museum to admire paintings. Tourism is more of a social act than a content-consumption one. People brag when they go to the museum, but never when they binge-watch paintings at 3 AM on the Internet.
Virtual tourism is like Soylent. Soylent doesn't replace good food. It replaces crappy fast food. Virtual tourism won't replace going to an art gallery for real. It replaces never going at all. I could see it really enriching the lives of those who can't afford to travel. I do it myself sometimes with Google street view. I'll go "visit" some random place.
But I still think virtual tourism will stay niche in the future because of the social reasons I stated.
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Curious--how is the font rendering/text quality? Example, working with digital cards with a title, short description, maybe numbers (currency/stats etc), reading them quickly and organizing them. I'm familiar with Oculus, so maybe in general and compared to the Rift?
Hard to say. The experience is quite a bit different than VR headsets. I can imagine that with its small FoV that it ought to be a bit better but I don't have an easy way to compare them.
(Compare using a quarter or other common object a certain distance away from you.)
For example on the rift, text is readable when it's the size of a quarter ~3 feet away from me.
Are 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w…
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I love my glasses. They help me see better. They are so light I don't even remember that I am wearing them. They also provide rudimentary physical and UV radiation protection for my eyes. They transition to a darker color outdoors and reduce glare. They also look nice on me. Would be fun to see a poll on whether people in general like or dislike glasses.
I think a better pool would be to see if people would replace their laptop or smartphone with a pair of glasses because after all this is what the smartglass manufacturers aim to do.
Hell, these days I find myself dreaming of AR contact lenses, so I could peruse some discreet computing in situations where I'm otherwise unoccupied, but the social context demands me not fiddling with a phone.