As other commenter said, this is not really the point of this particular article.
But I totally agree. I recently had the opportunity to try to develop (with a team) something for the Magic Leap One over a period of about 3 months, and it was an awful experience, a complete and utter disappointment.
Here are just some of the issues we faced:
- terrible overheating: we offloaded most functionality (basically everything in our app but image tracking) to a remote server and both the headset and the lightpack would still overheat to the point of being very hot to the touch within 5-10 minutes
- image tracking in general pretty much doesn't work: the effective range is like 2 feet, and even then it's laggy and inaccurate. And forget about trying to use your own images.
- controller drift: the tracking for the controller literally just starts floating away. We had attached something to the controller and during demos people would say, "woah it's just floating away" and look up as the virtual controller slowly faded into the distance
- unexplainable throttling: once it starts overheating, things like image tracking just stop working, apps freeze or shut down, etc.
- dizziness: everyone who tried it started feeling eye strain within minutes of wearing it
- awful field of view: to put it simply, if you look at someone eye-to-eye, the field of view cannot even show things right above their head
- clunky design: the lightpack is heavy and constantly getting in the way, and the cables attaching it to the headset are very stiff
- Lumin OS: sucks
- controller trackpad: the least functional trackpad I've used in my life. The circular scrolling is incredibly hard to use; our team just dropped the entire scrolling feature for demos because not a single person we trialed with was able to get it to work. Theoretically, it's just a circular motion with your thumb to scroll. In practice, after 3 months of experience using the device I was still unable scroll consistently.
- dim screen: like wearing dark sunglasses
- heavy headset / awkward weight distribution: it feels uncomfortably heavy on your eyes & nose area
And there are many more issues that make it feel more like a prototype made by a couple people in a garage than the flagship consumer product of a company with $2.6b in funding. Really makes me think the whole thing was a big scam, like a slightly less completely-made-up version of Theranos.