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Either collaborate and share or be secret and reveal, but this is the worst combination. If there was a way to short this company I would do it.
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There's just no way. They aren't going to beat Oculus/FB, or Sony, or HTC. They don't have a product; they clearly must have some incredible tech demos, and a wizard working VC
Who else has plowed a billion into a waveguide and light engine factory?
I remain highly skeptical.
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Bandwidth is not the problem, latency is. Bandwidth can be fixed by throwing more bandwidth at the problem. Cloud gaming has not done all that well; it's right at the edge of feasibility due to latency. VR moves it back off the edge to "unquestionably infeasible". If VR gaming were to take off and become a dominant paradigm it would make cloud gaming even harder to justify.
I had to look it up, but it appears OnLive was shut down in 2015 and patents sold off to Sony. I was completely skeptical at their claims with respect to latency. I never believed they could get the service to work, and for enough people to make it profitable. It appears quite a few people were able to enjoy the service at decent enough framerates. Which is surprising.
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I was also disappointed by that statement. I would expect much more from the first applications. Let me try to be constructive and think of some: + To have a cat even if you can't feed it or clean up (elderly). + To find out how it is to have a baby, how to feed it, how to care for it. + Dating first with an avatar before going for the real deal. + Searching for things without having to open cabinets or boxes. + Colo…
I don't want to live in a world with many of those features. I don't want my pets to talk to me, have my plants tell me they're thirsty, or go on a date with an avatar. And, as a parent of a two-year-old, trust me, no sort of application can let you find out how it is to have a baby. Maybe I'm just weird or old-fashioned.
I know my grandma didn't want pets because she is too old to bend over.
I know people who carry a sack of flower rather than a baby.
I've tried the Hololens dev version. It's very cool, unlike anything else I've had on my head. Those who let me try it don't seem to be overly worried or impressed with Magic Leap, but there's no way of telling until we see both side-by-side.
I'm thinking that Hololens rev. 2 will be out before Magic Leap rev. 1 is out and will be cheaper. So unless Magic Leap is an order of magnitude better than Hololens, they have failed. Say what you will about Microsoft, at least they already have a platform on which this "new era of computing" can be based: Windows. That is to say, it makes tremendous more sense to evolve from what we have now into the "new era of co…
Hololense = 1268 * 720 pixels per eye Magicleap = supposedly infinite (or they don't exist at all?) Hololens says they have 2.3 million “light points”. I don't know much about light points other than a few paragraphs, but I wonder how Magicleap actually measures light density and how/if it compares or correlates.
I presume a "light point" is some sort of shaped structure on their glass which allows the scanned light to escape to the eye when requested. And in theory, might be a place where they can do interference cancellation of incoming light to darken points. All their hype probably points to metamaterials-style shaping of light.
Remember that pixels aren't rectangles (hence why scaling images larger always looks more blocky or blurry than native res), they're point samples. So a "light point" should be equivalent to a pixel in the simple case. Whether or not they can bend light between points to make it "infinite", who knows. Any of that is always going to be limited by the resolution that the GPU can crunch in time.
I'm thinking that Hololens rev. 2 will be out before Magic Leap rev. 1 is out and will be cheaper. So unless Magic Leap is an order of magnitude better than Hololens, they have failed. Say what you will about Microsoft, at least they already have a platform on which this "new era of computing" can be based: Windows. That is to say, it makes tremendous more sense to evolve from what we have now into the "new era of co…
Just how impressed are they?
Let's see.
Magic Leap = 4.5bn valuation
Snapchat = 20bn valuation
So if, as the article states, ML could disrupt the $160bn LED screen market (among other markets), the valuation would reflect that.
Presently, it does not.
I'm thinking that Hololens rev. 2 will be out before Magic Leap rev. 1 is out and will be cheaper. So unless Magic Leap is an order of magnitude better than Hololens, they have failed. Say what you will about Microsoft, at least they already have a platform on which this "new era of computing" can be based: Windows. That is to say, it makes tremendous more sense to evolve from what we have now into the "new era of co…