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"We have accelerated the organization’s pivot to enterprise." Or, "we can't make this affordable".
> According to IDC, the AR/VR market is expected to grow to nearly $140 billion by the end of 2024. That number seems wildly exaggerated... unless I'm missing something?
I recently got an Oculus Quest 2 and was immediately stunned by the dearth of content that exists on the platform.
AR/VR is a hard sell, still; besides the initial experience - and as a dev in the AR/VR industry I'm honestly waiting for when we can get rid of the screen door effect in VR and better solutions to the lighting problem in AR.
I think HN is pretty set on the fact that Magic Leap is vaporware, isn't it? do they even have a product?
Surely the NDAs that were signed when they were previewing the tech to journalists have expired. I'd love to know what it was they were seeing that resulted in so many articles announcing something great was coming. For me, only the Segway (Ginger) was a bigger disappointment.
These "right idea, wrong time" fails confuse me. I just don't know what to make of it.
> According to IDC, the AR/VR market is expected to grow to nearly $140 billion by the end of 2024. That number seems wildly exaggerated... unless I'm missing something?
Both Apple and Facebook are wildly understood to be launching AR glasses with serious marketing pushes in 2022.
100 million units sold between the two of them over 2.5 years at an average price around the price of an iPhone (so $1000) plus some app sales adds up to $140BN. I guess. I agree that even there it seems high.
I want a good consumer AR headset. VR gives me a headache and I really think AR will be more fun / integrated with our lives. It's sad that MSFT made the HoloLens enterprise only, otherwise I'd be next in line for that.
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Coolest one I’ve seen is VR workspaces. Buying a $5k setup per head where they can work from space or the Grand Canyon with unlimited monitors, sit/stand/lay down, software upgrades (only a few pieces of hardware to replace), virtual meetings, building and modeling anything they want, etc It’s still kinda clunky now, but the tech will get better. That’s a money saver (and a big improvement) with the main barriers bei…
I dunno, I still can't quite see the potential of that. And even if they did get it working perfectly, then they're following in the footsteps of other people who've already done this on headsets that are a fraction of the price (like Immersed or Virtual Desktop). Even if they do manage to create mind-blowing hardware, they aren't exactly cornering a market here.
> According to IDC, the AR/VR market is expected to grow to nearly $140 billion by the end of 2024. That number seems wildly exaggerated... unless I'm missing something?
Yeah, seems way too high. I recently got an Oculus Quest 2 and was immediately stunned by the dearth of content that exists on the platform. AR/VR is a hard sell, still; besides the initial experience - and as a dev in the AR/VR industry I'm honestly waiting for when we can get rid of the screen door effect in VR and better solutions to the lighting problem in AR.
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Are you serious? This looks like an undergraduate project hacked up with OpenCV.. I'd still give it an A though.
Yeah. I'm kind of left feeling like I'd rather fly the plane in a better looking simulated environment, with a first-person perspective. It's more flexible and fun than being tied to flying it in the environment around you. I still haven't seen a compelling use case for AR.
Things like, pulling up addresses of buildings you look at, names of people you've met, line on ground for gps, playing board games with people without needing a board or dealing with the rule book (software assisted), see meta information floating around devices (battery level, year, serial number), etc. etc.
The UX of phones is pretty good but it suffers from its form factor. If you could have a UX for the world you can really enable a lot more human abilities in a really intuitive way and you can get closer to something that feels like telepathy.
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What they could do, if they figure out the right play, with the right hardware, is make this a really compelling active entertainment device. You already saw haw popular Pokemon Go was... I think locking eyeballs to locations has VC's interested.
Yes, but Pokemon Go was popular because it was on a phone you already had, because it was an extremely popular franchise, and because of the good luck of being a fad at the right time. Nothing else took its place, and, while still being popular, it quickly faded from the status of global phenomenon. It's a nice money making game, but not a hardware seller.
I am impressed they aren't defunct. After all they raised $3B[1] and their valuation is $2B so they are a long way away from making their investors whole. They did replace their entire top line management team it seems so maybe that helps? A friend of mine who was approaching AR from a more theoretical point rather than a product point shared some of the physics of how many nits of brightness the display needs to pro…