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.
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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
#12Best article I've seen so far talking about the technology:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/science/taking-real-life-s...
Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
#13A 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.
The article isn't wrong, it's just ambiguously written. When you are viewing stereoscopic 3D, you are indeed looking at a surface that is flat and at a fixed distance from your eyes. This has consequences in terms of how your eyes are used to working versus how they have to work in a situation like this.
So you might have fun wondering how to build something that doesn't work like that.
Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
#14A 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 Oculus Rift has full stereoscopic 3D. I think he may have misspoken. Just speculating, but maybe Magic Leap has some sort of eye tracking.
Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
#15$500M sounds like a typo. That is absolutely unheard of for a stealth company. For reference, Oculus had a $75M round last December, and they had ignited an entire VR developer community. Uber had a record setting round earlier this year and raised $1.2 billion. But Uber is... well, Uber.
Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
#16Here's the video associated with the Nvidia paper on Near-Eye Light Field Displays linked elsewhere in the comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCwtBxZM7g
It gives a very clear overview of the concept and prototypes.
Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
#17A 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.
In a way, stereoscopic 3D is seeing something "flat and floating in space at a set distance". The focus distance is the same for both your eyes, and the same for anything you look at.
In the real world, your eyes refocus for objects at different distances. It's not just a "stereoscopic effect". The actual focus distance - what's blurry and what's not blurry - changes.
This doesn't happen with devices like the Rift or a 3D movie screen. Your eyes may have to swivel in and out to align the images, but they don't have to refocus.
Very different from the real world!
Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
#18$500M sounds like a typo. That is absolutely unheard of for a stealth company. For reference, Oculus had a $75M round last December, and they had ignited an entire VR developer community. Uber had a record setting round earlier this year and raised $1.2 billion. But Uber is... well, Uber.
Color raised 40M for an unlaunched app. This at least seems to have some real world utility.
Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
#19A more technical overview of what the article suggests they are building: https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications...
Doug (the first author of the linked paper) is at Oculus now..
Here's Doug speaking on this research at Augmented World Expo 2014:
Re: Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
#20Right. Because as Clinkle has shown us, stealth companies raising massive rounds at gigantic valuations without any major traction works out well for everyone involved.