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My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

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Re: My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

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Post by sydthrowaway »

leetrout wrote: post #36

If you have not experienced the magic leap videos do not do it justice. Heres my video flying inside my house: https://youtu.be/Grlk03MdScQ The jaw dropping aspects: - it correctly knows when to mask for the column - it does lighting effects from the planes headlights - it does particle collisions with my furniture when it crashes - it crashes by detecting i hit the wall It really is amazing tech but it is very unpol…

Are you serious? This looks like an undergraduate project hacked up with OpenCV.. I'd still give it an A though.

Re: My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

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Post by Aunche »

leetrout wrote: post #36

If you have not experienced the magic leap videos do not do it justice. Heres my video flying inside my house: https://youtu.be/Grlk03MdScQ The jaw dropping aspects: - it correctly knows when to mask for the column - it does lighting effects from the planes headlights - it does particle collisions with my furniture when it crashes - it crashes by detecting i hit the wall It really is amazing tech but it is very unpol…

Is this much different from the Hololens?

Re: My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

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Post by phonon »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #58

I never quite figured out these tweets: https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/656667346837200896?... I’ve had the Magic Leap demo. It was worth going to Florida for. https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/842399282485460992?... So, a while ago I said that seeing Magic Leap was the coolest thing I'd seen since the iPhone. It's now much cooler than that. Any suggestions?

The demo he refers to was not (and could never be) an actual commercial product. It was stationary and the optics were 100x what could fit on a mobile device. What they eventually shipped had very little to do with the tech used in the private demo.

Turns out optical physics is not like software...

Re: My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

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Post by yodon »

gurumeditations wrote: post #64
breezeTrowel wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Startups who made product claims which experts in their fields said were not possible. Can you clarify what you mean by this? What aspect is considered impossible? Augmented Reality has been around for a while. There's the Microsoft HoloLens. Not to mention all the AR demos Apple does whenever they announce a new iPhone. Check out this page, for example: https://www.apple.com/augmented-reality/ especially the Snapc…

Clearly you do not know of their history leading up to the release of the first ML device. Hype, magical promises, and fake demos galore.

> Clearly you do not know ...

Your comment would work just as well and could be just as informative without the personal attack

Re: My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

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Post by croes »

Aunche wrote: post #84
leetrout wrote: post #36

If you have not experienced the magic leap videos do not do it justice. Heres my video flying inside my house: https://youtu.be/Grlk03MdScQ The jaw dropping aspects: - it correctly knows when to mask for the column - it does lighting effects from the planes headlights - it does particle collisions with my furniture when it crashes - it crashes by detecting i hit the wall It really is amazing tech but it is very unpol…

Is this much different from the Hololens?

Hololens 1 and Magic Leap don't have much of a difference. The Magic Leap has a greater FOV

Re: My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

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Post by knownjorbist »

baybal2 wrote: post #43
raesene9 wrote: post #21

I must admit I'd forgotten about Magic Leap, amazed to see they're still going and raising even more money. In my head, I always put them in a bucket with Theranos and uBeam, Startups who made product claims which experts in their fields said were not possible. I guess slick marketing wins over those doubts in some VC circles but you wonder if anyone at the early stage Magic Leap investors is getting asked tough ques…

One on my list of mind boggling "Tech 2.0" scams were: 1. Teranos 2. Magic Leap 3. Andelur Ghost Only the last one still didn't get enough media attention. People who scored Andelur handshakes with the military & intelligence are the types who did it for Advanced Tactical Security & Communications Ltd ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 ) Andelur is basically trying to sell the governments around the world a Chin…

Would you care to reply to the people who attest that the magic leap is actually underwhelming given the current state of AR?

Re: My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

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Post by croes »

DonHopkins wrote: post #32
thathndude wrote: post #7

Here we go again . . . But in all seriousness, even if they could ship something meaningful, one wonders if the brand is tarnished such that it makes sense to re-launch with fresh branding. “Magic Leap” does not conjure up positive images in my mind. Why swim against the current unnecessarily?

Or are you referring to the ridiculous 12/12/2012 TEDX "talk" that Rony Abovitz performed at the Ringling College of Art, and all the FAKE and DECEPTIVE videos they posted and lied about on youtube, that tarnished Magic Leap's reputation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY In my mind, they're not as reputable after having given Rony Abovitz a platform to perform that "fudge". Just watch the video, if you can…

It's on the same level as the Hololens 1. So fraud seems the wrong word. Overhyped? Yes. Fraud? No.
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