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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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In 2022, the tech I'm hoping takes off is the Tilt5.

I assume the main sell is that you, I and a few of our friends could sit at a table, play a digital table top game while still being able to see and engage visually with each other?

That's the way it's marketed, but nothing says you can't mount the reflective mat vertically.

This would be particularly useful for CAD, engineering, but also just plain old 3d gaming that doesn't cause problems with your equilibrium.

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

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Man, you all are some of the biggest haters I've ever seen.

I've gotten to wear and use both the Magic Leap 1 and Magic Leap 2. These devices are like wearing technology 15 years into the future. It's absolutely wild seeing what is possible. It's crazy because you all are hating so much, but they're out here shipping enterprise products and services and doing it as a first-in-class device.

I'm especially confused because some of you are comparing this device to VR devices when it's a completely different product focus. VR != AR folks. And if you got the chance to try and see it, you would completely understand the vision.

I'm incredibly hyped about Magic Leap and can't wait for this technology to become more widely available. What they're doing there is nuts, and exciting!

All you all need to go touch grass.

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

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Any word on how much light the lenses filter out? In the promo video it looks like you loose at least 30-60% light. edit supposedly 2000 nits, which is meant to allow it to be visible in normal light.

The global dimming feature is insanely good. And it's incredibly easy to use from a development perspective as well. You can simply set the dimming as a percentage value and it hides the world.

It's incredibly impressive and to be honest it's a little surprising how good it is.

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

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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…

I'm not sure it's exciting.

The cancer called advertising has already consumed consumer tech, the vast majority of people are complacent with the situation, and the only escape is real-life where cost, technological and physical limitations prevent the same level of advertising (yes there are billboards, but that's nothing compared to what digital advertising has become).

VR would essentially remove all those limitations, and since people are complacent and clearly don't mind it, we'd end up in a world like this video depicts: https://vimeo.com/166807261. Hell, Facebook or "Meta" is going all-in on VR for a reason.

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

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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…

At $3200 you can just get a Simula One VR[1], which will do everything and more, with less bullshit, and an eye to real usability. I can't understand getting a Magic Leap anything for any amount of money, let alone thousands. They've outed themselves as absolute grifters lol. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3uN7d51Cco for the kinda cringe show video. But the tech is real and there.

> you can just get a Simula One VR

except they aren't shipping yet .... I'm a big fan but you really can't count it as a comparison until its really in production. They have barely assembled prototype units yet let alone got the tech fully working.

And even then, its a completely different thing. The magic leap is true AR with real world pass through and full hand tracking. Whether its any good or not I don't know but the use cases they are targeting - surgeons etc are not going to strap a SimlarVR to their head.

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

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Given their past history I have no idea if this is real or not but I will say its exciting to see the VR/AR/XR space heating up again. If it is real then these will definitely push the boundaries of the form factors currently available and that is great to see.

Having been a VR enthusiast for a while, I will say I am very confident there is something valuable in it. Halving the weight and doubling the resolution of the headsets is within sight and going to truly expand the range of possible / viable applications. What emerges in the end as truly valuable applications is an unknown but that's exactly why its fun to be around during these stages of the tech evolution.

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

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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…

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