It looks like they're lagging far behind the industry with the input device. Vive and Oculus are very focused on finger tracking / improving the motion controller experience. I'm curious how far behind the rest of the device is.
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#442Earlier quoted context omitted.
> he journalist in the Rolling Stone article It's called PR. Interesting that this came out in Rolling Stone and not another tech site. I obviously couldn't say for sure, but I don't see why it isn't implausible to think that they found a publication that was happy to roll over a few details in exchange for an exclusive dig. > “We went on this really crazy sprint from basically October 2014 to December 2017,” This is…
They got almost 2B$ of investment, I can't see why having 3 years of crazy sprint would be a problem.
3 years...
Also, having more money and no biz model is a bigger issue than you think.
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#443Since the 1st iteration of the design is apparently ready, why can't they just show a small demo? It's supposed to be shipping in 2018. They could easily have hired a team of top notch creators to showcase some of the capabilities of the device live -even if the device is still not 100% ready- instead of this silly Manhattan project secrecy. I hope they deliver as promised, but something smells fishy. It's a pity, be…
Read the story again. He experienced the demos with some sort of surrogate hardware, not the goggles pictured. You'll note that he goes through all the demos, and then later gets his first close look at the goggles hardware. The story provides no indication that the goggle hardware is yet functional.
This is absolutely false.
He explicitly talks about the cameras inside the lighwear that allow the girl to keep eye contact with him.
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#444Opened the link on a mobile phone. Got a full screen image with the following text: "welcome to day one". OK, let's scroll a bit. This is the text that follows: "We're adding another dimension to computing. Where digital respects the physical." What's this site about? What's the product? I understand that designing a website is tricky, but - to me - this site seems an example of something aesthetically pleasing, but…
Just as bad on the PC, I'll just check this thread in an hour and the top post will tell us what it's about (and why such a poor site is #1 story).
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#445I don't understand why this entire field seems so focused on gaming, and not productivity. The single most interesting thing to me was the "displays on demand". There are two things that would absolutely revolutionize how I work that I would pay big money for: 1) Any sort of glasses that would allow me to view virtual displays in high definition. I don't care if I have to turn my head to see more than one display, I…
I see some potential to AR for assisted training of employees. Imagine being able to train someone to a series of tasks that are displayed right in front of the user's eyes. We learn much faster by copying someone, and having this kind of tool would free up resources while you on-board someone.
Copying is helpful, but what about the feedback? I'm not sure there are many tasks that you can learn just by looking, even in 3D.
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#448What I want to know, more than anything, is where this image is used in the page?
https://www.magicleap.com/_next/images/5099815a87b8b930e9846...
I was inspecting the network traffic of the page and found this image…
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#449Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article, remarkably, has scant few details on the author's experience with the product. This quote sums up my skepticism: >instead they were constructed to give visitors who pass through the facility under non-disclosure agreement, a chance to see the magic in action. It's a controlled environment with purpose-built demos for folks under NDA. There's no videos, renderings from actual hardware, or substantive crit…
This is the reason why I hate conspiracy theorist. You can't argue with them because they think to know everything despite the evidence of the contrary.
> despite the evidence of the contrary
You're on a bit of a roll across this thread [1] without anything more than the Rolling Stone article. People are expressing healthy skepticism towards a company that has been publicly caught in a material lie, has raised a lot of VC with little to show for it, and made an announcement with lots of CGI and a vague "2018" release date. Given whom this announcement is targeting, I think it's fair for people to have a balanced view before they commit their time or energy to this company.
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#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's a controlled environment with purpose-built demos for folks under NDA Magic Leap pulled a similar stunt with The Information around the same time last year [1]. Seems like they found a more pliant journalist in The Rolling Stone . "In March of last year, it released a video online titled “Just Another Day in the Office at Magic Leap.” Shot from the perspective of one of its employees working at his desk, all a…
So are you explicitly saying that the Rolling Stones journalist is lying? And the only supposed "proof" you bring is an article over an year old written when the miniaturised prototype didn't even exist?
"This is a game we’re playing around the office right now,' Magic Leap wrote in the description of the video."
"In addition to the bulky demo connected to a computer, Mr. Abovitz showed The Information a prototype of the compact device it intends to build. It looked as if somebody fastened electronics to every inch of a pair of wire-framed glasses. It had a multi-layered, flat lens. He would not turn the device on, but assured a reporter that it worked just as well as the larger, helmet-like device."
Your post agrees that one year ago, Magic Leap was lying about the technology they had. JumpCrisscross only asserts that given all publicly available information, Magic Leap is probably still lying.