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Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise

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Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise

#11
I’ll never be able to get over the insanely fake promotional video for the original Magic Leap that demonstrated background occlusion, and not the ghostly overlayed image that the headset actually delivered.

The project was presumably shrouded in such secrecy that the marketing folks had no idea what they were actually selling.

Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise

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post #11

I’ll never be able to get over the insanely fake promotional video for the original Magic Leap that demonstrated background occlusion, and not the ghostly overlayed image that the headset actually delivered. The project was presumably shrouded in such secrecy that the marketing folks had no idea what they were actually selling.

what a fall from grace from "flying whales!" to "here's google glass for the enterprise"...

Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise

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https://www.insight.com/en_US/shop/partner/magic-leap/store.... How does the specs of the enterprise edition compare to something like the PSVR2 or Project Cambria specs? I'm kind of new to VR. I found a real life demo of this item, I don't know why it's so hard to find actual footage of it at this point of the company's lifecycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1-miutMA60

My guess is because it’s extremely underwhelming compared much cheaper standalone VR headsets with pass through. I predict the nail in the coffin will come once Apple finally releases the 3rd iteration of their upcoming headset

Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise

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post #8

You are looking for the price like I was, and many pages are trying to snare you onto “speak to a specialist” links. Let me spare you the trouble, as you are looking for this page: https://www.insight.com/en_US/shop/partner/magic-leap/store.... If you’d rather not click (and I totally understand) let me tell you that the Leap 2 costs between $3200 for the base model and up to $5000 for the enterprise model, which giv…

Puts the price point in direct competition with Hololens.

Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise

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post #13
post #11

I’ll never be able to get over the insanely fake promotional video for the original Magic Leap that demonstrated background occlusion, and not the ghostly overlayed image that the headset actually delivered. The project was presumably shrouded in such secrecy that the marketing folks had no idea what they were actually selling.

what a fall from grace from "flying whales!" to "here's google glass for the enterprise"...

Meh this could turn out to be a success story. The original founder had more experience in medical and enterprise sales. He wasn’t a B2C type of CEO and probably was surrounded by yes men and the adoring media who fed into his ego.

They obviously over played their hand and they were given tons of hype and probably felt the pressure. Not an excuse obviously. But we shouldn’t shame people for shooting for the moon and landing on earth.

The fact they got some professionals to eventually run it and have real serious applications is ultimately a net positive for society.

Eventually the price and tech might get practical for consumers, it makes sense to go up market / business before consumer.

Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise

#20
I made a snarky (maybe somewhat undeserved) tweet comparing Magic Leap to Theranos last year that pissed off Rony Abovitz. He pointed out that they were shipping their enterprise product. I still think the promise was wildly oversold, but at least they are making something.
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