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Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech

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Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech

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Post by Lewisham »

Schwolop wrote: post #2

Anyone have anything concrete on what this is, how it works, whether it's more than vapourware? On the basis of publicly available information it sounds a lot like ... nothing. Expensive nothing, for that matter.

I do believe there is something here. I know Grahame Devine from the Santa Cruz circuit and met him a couple of times. He was serious about his one-man band independent iOS development, and he seemed very happy about staying in Santa Cruz.

And then I heard he had upped and left to Florida with his family, which is a big change. He has the rap sheet [1] to do pretty much whatever he wants, so I took his move to Florida as a big sign that Magic Leap exists (moving to Florida is no joke, and he's not a pump-and-dump kinda guy) and whatever does exist is cool (he wants to build cool things, and there's plenty of that in the Bay Area).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Devine

Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech

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Post by Karunamon »

Schwolop wrote: post #2

Anyone have anything concrete on what this is, how it works, whether it's more than vapourware? On the basis of publicly available information it sounds a lot like ... nothing. Expensive nothing, for that matter.

That was my initial thought too, but I don't think Google would be funding a completely crap project. I'd like to think they did their homework..

Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech

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Post by Alain-lf »

A whole lot of money for a whole lot of buzzword but no information in sight... Magic Leap's own website has even less information.

"On Oculus Rift and pretty much every other virtual and augmented reality experience, what the viewer sees is flat and floating in space at a set distance."

I was under the impression that the Oculus Rift had full stereoscopic 3d? Either I'm wrong or this article is wrong.

Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech

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Post by ChuckMcM »

I will be very surprised if this is true. I could see Google buying out something like TechnicalIllusions but my experience with super secretive folks is that the lack of additional eyeballs on the technology results in big gaps are discovered right when folks think it should be "done."

Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech

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Post by psykotic »

Alain-lf wrote: post #7

A whole lot of money for a whole lot of buzzword but no information in sight... Magic Leap's own website has even less information. "On Oculus Rift and pretty much every other virtual and augmented reality experience, what the viewer sees is flat and floating in space at a set distance." I was under the impression that the Oculus Rift had full stereoscopic 3d? Either I'm wrong or this article is wrong.

The article is wrong. What they're clumsily describing there sounds like Google Glass style AR.
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