Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets

Post by Retric » Sat, May 28, 2016, 11:08 AM UTC

Fricken wrote: post #45

skc wrote: post #28

The reluctance for people to be skeptical of anything to do with Magic Leap is strange to me. How is their product not rightly described as vapor ware? I feel like I've been hearing about how amazing it is for ages and still...nothing. Stories like this aren't helping me change my mind either.

Gauging off their patents, they've got so much bleeding edge shit to pack into their device that I'm not expecting a consumer ready product from Magic Leap in less than 5 years. I'm just going to have to get used to people throwing around the 'vapourware' accusation in every Magic Leap thread I stumble across for some time to come.

Post by thesystemis » Sat, May 28, 2016, 12:08 PM UTC

starb wrote: post #54

thesystemis wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He wrote the Learning OpenCV book but I'm not sure it's accurate to say he created openCV... It was created by intel internally (by a ton of folks like Vadim Pisarevsky) and later open sourced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV

No, it is accurate. He was at Intel when it was created, and meeting notes suggest that he had been leading the project. https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/wiki/Meeting_notes

Post by ChuckMcM » Sat, May 28, 2016, 5:01 PM UTC

syngrog66 wrote: post #55

ChuckMcM wrote: post #44

I don't know if ML's tech is vapor or real, but I have a lot of respect for anyone who can get Larry Page to give them half a billion in cash. That right there is some seriously convincing talking.

fair point. I'd add that if a person has $10+ billion, already (or whatever his net worth is), then you can afford to risk blowing a few billion, here and there, on things which might turn into a loss. On the upside, he'd be better off and humanity would be better off. On the downside even if his bet failed and he and therefore the Page estate got reduced to a mere, say, $100 million in net wealth he and his children…

Post by dj_doh » Sat, May 28, 2016, 8:17 PM UTC

Q6T46nT668w6i3m wrote: post #26

bgalbraith wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bradski is also the creator of OpenCV, an industry standard computer vision library.

Adrian Kaehler is also a major contributor to OpenCV.

Post by syngrog66 » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 2:40 AM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #65

syngrog66 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fair point. I'd add that if a person has $10+ billion, already (or whatever his net worth is), then you can afford to risk blowing a few billion, here and there, on things which might turn into a loss. On the upside, he'd be better off and humanity would be better off. On the downside even if his bet failed and he and therefore the Page estate got reduced to a mere, say, $100 million in net wealth he and his children…

Well in this case it is the company's money, and lots of people within the company are "competing" for funding of their projects. Of course there is the reverse NIH effect which is that any technology invented outside of the company seems more impressive to leadership than technology created inside the company.