So, I don't know how this sort of thing works.
When do investors start suing for fraud?
Magic Leap One
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#72I'm happy to see the website stressing something I've thought VR would do well: Act as a display for my computer desktop. I would love to just take my laptop and these glasses with me and be able to have N screens all around me anywhere I want. Imagine working at a cafe with various large displays all around you showing all the windows you have open. If this is cheaper than my three displays (and the resolution isn't…
This would be great. Though, I don't think I'd use it in a café - I might be looking at a huge dump of data, but the person sitting behind where my "display" is might think I'm staring at them.
Expect a revival of the word 'glasshole' if that ever became a burgeoning trend.
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#73I'm happy to see the website stressing something I've thought VR would do well: Act as a display for my computer desktop. I would love to just take my laptop and these glasses with me and be able to have N screens all around me anywhere I want. Imagine working at a cafe with various large displays all around you showing all the windows you have open. If this is cheaper than my three displays (and the resolution isn't…
That's my intent as well: use MR to replace monitors, then progressively switch to monitor-less apps. There may be a limitation, though: resolution. If we are have 9 virtual monitors, each displaying content at 2500x1200 (random pick), performances may not follow. But then I guess, we only need to focus on one at a time. Maybe those additional monitors could work if we lower resolution of those not directly where our…
To say nothing of whether magic leap is real - when vr/ar technology catches up there's a trick to get around this. It should be possible to track gaze precisely and only render the high resolution 'fovea' at high detail. The rest can be very low res and nobody would know. This will probably be important in graphics and gaming first though, where they can focus all of the gigaflops on sampling illumination raycasts in the most sensitive area of vision. It's actually pretty wasteful to render an entire UHD monitor at full resolution when the eye can't even discern a word at one end of a sentence when the fovea is focused on the other.
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#74Looks like good design choices to me. Separating the power and compute from goggles reduces weight on the headset. Its ideally suited to be integrated into a special ops soldier's helmet for use on the battlefield. Or a surgical visor for a telemedicine operating theatre.
It's very much Day One for this. HoloLens has been a stealth hit for Microsoft this year. Its the kit ($3K) I'm most excited to try out. Its quite possible all design prototyping and additive manufacturing software interfaces will have a head-mounted 3D input component soon.
And that's just the enterprise market. For retail consumers, check out Fragments to see the possibilities of turning turning home or public spaces into immersive gaming environments:
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#75So what does this thing do?
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#76I wonder if these (in contrast with the glasses you get for a 3D film) are usable in combination with normal glasses?
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#77Magic Leap has a track record of outright lying [1]. Everything in this "unveiling" looks like CGI. There is no store and nothing is shipping until "2018". [1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/8/13894000/magic-leap-ar-mi...
Apparently it's real:
https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro...
Common concerns, like FOV (not very big), are addressed in this article:
> The viewing space is about the size of a VHS tape held in front of you with your arms half extended. It’s much larger than the HoloLens, but it’s still there.
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#78I was always wondering why HoloLens is insisting on packing the batteries/processor on the headset. I'm very pleased to see Magic Leap going the other way. There is just more room for volume and weight in a pocket than on a user's head.
Yes, the wire would be somewhat annoying, but I'm optimistic wireless tech will get there soon enough.
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#79So is it still 1500 bucks?
And I guess they don't remember Trip Hawkins overpriced bid at entertainment dominance, the 3DO? Cause this thing has a the whiff of 3DO all over it:
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#80> "Displays On Demand"
Whilst I am excited about the prospect of doing this myself, in the hands of the advertising web this is effectively "advertise inside your competitors' store(s)"