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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

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Post by inerte »

dmix wrote: post #23
fallingmeat wrote: post #15

what are the killer apps for this? maybe someone more bullish can summarize who this customer is?

Their main value prop is any sophisticated work requiring extensive pre-planning in group settings or in a physical environment like surgeries, architecture, and work training. There’s tons of complex jobs like this in the military, healthcare, high end niche manufacturing, etc. There’s also the sales aspect where you help customers visualize products like a car demo to executives. The barrier seems to be customizati…

Architecture is a reality right now, I've seen architects presenting their projects on a VR headset with clients walking outside and inside their projects. It's actually super cool, and a few thousand dollars investment (you're building the model anyway) seems to be worthy for the extra wow factor.

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

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bathtub365 wrote: post #47
RajT88 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If both companies are successful (a big "If"), this means in some years, we'll be hitting another sci-fi milestone for what the future looks like. Thousands of dollars today, but in ~10 years, smartphone prices and hopefully smartphone battery life. It took a bit longer than we'd have liked, but like... Our present is starting to look like the future imagined back when I was a kid . It's very exciting. With a lot les…

This is the same thing people said about the HoloLens 1 at the same price point 6 years ago. I’m skeptical since neither of these are a consumer product and the price hasn’t moved much.

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

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Post by mr_toad »

fallingmeat wrote: post #15

what are the killer apps for this? maybe someone more bullish can summarize who this customer is?

Remember that holographic chess scene from Star Wars? I want that, only with games like Total War, or Sim City.

Not sure I’m willing to pay several thousand dollars for it though.

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

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Post by simple10 »

swyx wrote: post #13
muglug wrote: 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"...

It's classic aim for the stars and land on the moon. I'm glad to see Magic Leap staid in business and is continuing to move the tech forward.

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

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Post by kortex »

cercatrova wrote: post #42
RajT88 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If both companies are successful (a big "If"), this means in some years, we'll be hitting another sci-fi milestone for what the future looks like. Thousands of dollars today, but in ~10 years, smartphone prices and hopefully smartphone battery life. It took a bit longer than we'd have liked, but like... Our present is starting to look like the future imagined back when I was a kid . It's very exciting. With a lot les…

It's interesting, the Cyberpunk style worlds were made in the 80s when Japan was still dominant, so people thought Japan would continue dominating. But that didn't quite turn out how we expected. So it's funny to see Japan still so prominently depicted in future settings, kanji on buildings and people with katana running around, but it's nowhere near like that in the real world.

They are still the 3rd largest economy in the world. Katanas would still be weird. Unless it's a mall ninja.

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

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Post by trzy »

mr_toad wrote: post #53
fallingmeat wrote: post #15

what are the killer apps for this? maybe someone more bullish can summarize who this customer is?

Remember that holographic chess scene from Star Wars? I want that, only with games like Total War, or Sim City. Not sure I’m willing to pay several thousand dollars for it though.

You want Tilt5 then.

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

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Post by kristopolous »

RajT88 wrote: post #37
mey wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Puts the price point in direct competition with Hololens.

If both companies are successful (a big "If"), this means in some years, we'll be hitting another sci-fi milestone for what the future looks like. Thousands of dollars today, but in ~10 years, smartphone prices and hopefully smartphone battery life. It took a bit longer than we'd have liked, but like... Our present is starting to look like the future imagined back when I was a kid . It's very exciting. With a lot les…

Maybe I'm out of the loop but is there any additional use case or function compared with such devices in say 1995?

More lightweight, sure, higher pixel density, sure, but that's not a context that changes the offer.

In actual human computer relationship and function, it just feels like Myron Krueger's Videoplace from the 1980s is being perennially reinvented.

Please tell me how stupid and out of touch I am. I probably just don't get it

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

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Post by keyle »

IHLayman wrote: 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…

The dream of consumer AR is dying slowly. It's a disruptive tech that's gone into sleepyland.

Look at stable diffusion as a comparison, blows everyone's mind every day for 30 days, moving at an incredible pace, and for free...

Sure hardware, vs. software but still, we're in different leagues.

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

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Post by tsol »

IHLayman wrote: 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…

When I was a kid, a really good pc(like an Alienware) was 3200. Now my phone is more powerful than most of those PCs from back then. I think you'll see continue to see prices fall over time until adoption takes off

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

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Post by [deleted] »

muglug wrote: 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.

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