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I didn’t even know they had gotten beyond vaporware! Why would someone spend $2,300 on this equipment other than as a developer kit? I assume there is virtually no compelling content or services available to make a consumer interested in shelling out that amount of money, or even 1/10th that amount of money.
I can understand not wanting their product misrepresented, but all the secrecy and censorship about it makes me believe it is bad, and I'm not going to spend money on something I believe is bad.
For as cool as this is, cost is the problem. $2300 is an expensive experiment, one that might not be for me. You want to get developers to bet on new tech, to innovate, then get the cost way down. Make me as an individual developer willing to take the risk that I might not have the time or the mindset to follow through. I can't imagine that the cost of production is more than $500... start selling them at that price…
For as cool as this is, cost is the problem. $2300 is an expensive experiment, one that might not be for me. You want to get developers to bet on new tech, to innovate, then get the cost way down. Make me as an individual developer willing to take the risk that I might not have the time or the mindset to follow through. I can't imagine that the cost of production is more than $500... start selling them at that price…
For as cool as this is, cost is the problem. $2300 is an expensive experiment, one that might not be for me. You want to get developers to bet on new tech, to innovate, then get the cost way down. Make me as an individual developer willing to take the risk that I might not have the time or the mindset to follow through. I can't imagine that the cost of production is more than $500... start selling them at that price…
You can't imagine that the cost of custom bleeding-edge hardware produced in four-digit-volume runs is more than $500?
For as cool as this is, cost is the problem. $2300 is an expensive experiment, one that might not be for me. You want to get developers to bet on new tech, to innovate, then get the cost way down. Make me as an individual developer willing to take the risk that I might not have the time or the mindset to follow through. I can't imagine that the cost of production is more than $500... start selling them at that price…
I wouldn't panic just yet. I bet for every order of magnitude they reduce the price they will increase sales by an order of magnitude. Get it under $100 and the will sell millions of units.
Hopefully they will still trigger a revolution of some sort... but this was predictable.
For as cool as this is, cost is the problem. $2300 is an expensive experiment, one that might not be for me. You want to get developers to bet on new tech, to innovate, then get the cost way down. Make me as an individual developer willing to take the risk that I might not have the time or the mindset to follow through. I can't imagine that the cost of production is more than $500... start selling them at that price…
I agree that $2300 is a steep price for an experiment but I'm not sure you would want to base your price on the cost of production - why is that any better than any other arbitrary price?
I didn’t even know they had gotten beyond vaporware! Why would someone spend $2,300 on this equipment other than as a developer kit? I assume there is virtually no compelling content or services available to make a consumer interested in shelling out that amount of money, or even 1/10th that amount of money.
The thing that got me about the Magic Leap is I couldn't find a reliable video of what it looked like through the lenses. Everything was clearly a CGI overlay or recreation. Reviewers claimed they were prohibited from showing video through the lenses.[0] I can understand not wanting their product misrepresented, but all the secrecy and censorship about it makes me believe it is bad, and I'm not going to spend money o…