Where's my splashy whale?
Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise
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#112I own a HTC vive pro. I showed it to my family and friends. No one was ever motivated enough to come back and play with it more. AR will also not become 'big' it will be a niche thing for certain jobs. ML I remember the school sport indoor area with a whale flying around. Yeah let's see how the future will look like. I don't think this will ever be the big thint
I disagree. AR will become big since as we progress VR we'll do as we do with computers. Make smaller versions (like all these mini computers posts on HN) to carry with us, but with VR that is not quite possible since we would to stick cameras on the front of the lenses. You never see movies with people walking around with big VR headsets, they walk around with AR glasses and that would most probably be in the distan…
For what?
I got lasik to get rid of my glasses.
There is nothing I'm currently missing. I'm contrary I'm actually trying to do less with my phone.
I don't think people wanna sit in public transport wearing a gadget. I don't think anyone really wanna sit in a coffee place while wearing ar glasses.
What do you think people would like to do with ar?
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#113Earlier 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…
Yeah, when you think about it, this is only 2-4 times the price of a high end laptop. If the tech is cool that’s not outrageous
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Magic Leap is just a zombie at this point. NReal has a better and more realistic strategy. Historically, Microsoft doesn’t know how to make revolutionary product lines profitable and sustainable long term. Kinect was an amazing concept with consecutive poor execution. My memory might be off but they also had 1st crack at iPod, and their current foray into both VR and AR are both underwhelming so far. MS does best whe…
> We still will be hitting sci-fi soon. Just not with those companies. I have more faith in Apple, Sony, and Meta. Google will try again and I would be surprised if Amazon didn’t try as well I just had a really weird realization when reading through your list of potential successors. ("Apple, Sony, and Meta"). There's only one name on that list I root for. Meta? Fuck no. Obviously not them. Nothing else to say here.…
I think the PS5 shows that they're doing a huge amount of things right. But they don't seem to have the same kind of _vision_ apple does (even if you dislike that vision). They still seem to value hardware over software while I think Apple sees them as inseparable parts of a whole.
Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. AR will become big since as we progress VR we'll do as we do with computers. Make smaller versions (like all these mini computers posts on HN) to carry with us, but with VR that is not quite possible since we would to stick cameras on the front of the lenses. You never see movies with people walking around with big VR headsets, they walk around with AR glasses and that would most probably be in the distan…
For what? I got lasik to get rid of my glasses. There is nothing I'm currently missing. I'm contrary I'm actually trying to do less with my phone. I don't think people wanna sit in public transport wearing a gadget. I don't think anyone really wanna sit in a coffee place while wearing ar glasses. What do you think people would like to do with ar?
There will be stupid games, with prizes, and in a TikTok + Pokémon Go like event society will fad on it for a few weeks.
Beyond that, AR has significant applications in technical fields simply as an in-field reference and augmented system state visualizer.
Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise
#116Earlier 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…
Smartphone took off thanks to the capacitive touchscreen. Before that people were like "look at that weirdo with his/her bulky phone and stylus, he/she'd be better off with a notepad". VR headsets need a similar technological leap to become mainstream. It is not just price. The key issue is being able to see the wearer's eyes. This is the only thing that can solve the weirdness issue.
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#117I feel like we're beyond video's with extreme closeup renders of gadgets and hardware. It's like, yeah, that's button, real closeup, I know.
Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what? I got lasik to get rid of my glasses. There is nothing I'm currently missing. I'm contrary I'm actually trying to do less with my phone. I don't think people wanna sit in public transport wearing a gadget. I don't think anyone really wanna sit in a coffee place while wearing ar glasses. What do you think people would like to do with ar?
There will be stupid games, with prizes, and in a TikTok + Pokémon Go like event society will fad on it for a few weeks. Beyond that, AR has significant applications in technical fields simply as an in-field reference and augmented system state visualizer.
Yeah I'm not disputing that ar will be used by a project managerin on a big construction side were a digital twin exists.
But I don't think we will see them 'normal' in our daily life's.
Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise
#119Earlier 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.
It’s not exactly like that but not nowhere near[1] ;)
1: Hatsune Miku on a Kabuki-cho billboard over news headline reporting US-Russia tensions over Ukraine(2014) https://twitter.com/kno2502/status/440101207596494850
Re: Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise
#120Earlier 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…
Smartphone took off thanks to the capacitive touchscreen. Before that people were like "look at that weirdo with his/her bulky phone and stylus, he/she'd be better off with a notepad". VR headsets need a similar technological leap to become mainstream. It is not just price. The key issue is being able to see the wearer's eyes. This is the only thing that can solve the weirdness issue.
This history is a contraction of more than a two decades of continuous development. Watch the matrix (1998) and you will see small, stylish cell phones everywhere. The capacitative touch screen is important, but pretty much everyone who bought a gen1/2 iPhone already used a feature phone that they used chronically.