Holomakerbot
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How did Magic Leap become irrelevant?
Price needs to come down and it needs to be wireless. I would wager 3-5 years just for wireless. Could be a decade for price to come down under a thousand. But I also think by then the separate processor wont be necessary anymore, either using your phone or cloud.
Holomakerbot
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How did Magic Leap become irrelevant?
Have you seen the breakthroughs that Magic Leap 2 has achieved? Still not at the price point for consumers but it pretty much solves all the annoyances of the first device or HoloLens for that matter. No longer looking through a tiny FOV, holograms no longer transparent, usable outdoors, first device able to display black. It is quite an achievement.
Holomakerbot
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How did Magic Leap become irrelevant?
The irony with Karl’s blog is that he’s done nearly a 180 on Magic Leap with the debut of their second product. They’ve ironically becciome relevant again, just not in the consumer space at all.
Holomakerbot
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How did Magic Leap become irrelevant?
There is a middle ground between hardware being ubiquitous and being like 3D Tv that fizzled out just a few years after launching. VR has been growing exponentially each year since its consumer launch in 2016. AR will just open up the use cases even more and helps it continue to grow.
Holomakerbot
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How did Magic Leap become irrelevant?
People should really google this before asking the question multiple times.
Holomakerbot
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How did Magic Leap become irrelevant?
They have two products. The second one has already been getting a lot of praise for two major breakthroughs— the ability to display black and the largest FOV in a see through optical headset. The whole topic of this thread is a bit of a straw man, as they’ve actually become relevant again, by making a compelling device and pivoting to enterprise. They’re just not in the consumer game anymore.
Holomakerbot
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6 years ago
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on: Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses
Honestly, with high priced dev kits they just need to be given out for free like Valve did with the Vive. Magic leap has given out thousands just to get devs on board.
Holomakerbot
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6 years ago
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on: Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses
Holomakerbot
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6 years ago
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on: Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses
He's underestimating (though not by a whole lot probably). The 6k numbers from the above article refer to the first 6 months sale. Guttag is talking about the last 18 months. Also doesn't account for the headsets that have been seeded to devs.
Holomakerbot
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6 years ago
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on: Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses
Notice that zero VR companies show you through the lens footage. This is not restricted to Magic Leap. You can find amateur attempts by owners to shoot through Magic Leap, Hololens, and various VR headsets if you go on Youtube and Twitter. But no company does this at all. Just another misunderstanding by people here who think they've found another reason to nitpick at Magic leap, but it's a widespread industry issue. VR is actually the worst about this because they only show straight from the PC output with none of the limitations you actually experience like FOV and screen door effect.
Holomakerbot
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6 years ago
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on: Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses
That's just how it goes with AR, you can find some amateur clips people have tried to shoot through the lens themselves but it's very difficult. Even Microsoft doesn't shoot through the lens and has gotten similar flack. Best they can do is composite imaging, which actually looks worse than through the lens.
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel
You’ll actually be hard pressed to find any press anywhere that thinks the hardware is bad.
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Magic Leap Review Part I
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Magic Leap Review Part I
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Magic Leap Review Part I
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Is Palmer Luckey right about Magic Leap being a tragic heap?
Most reviews acknowledge that despite it not being a huge technological advancement it’s still the best standalone AR headset. Second, devs love it. Check out the activity on social media or hands on reviews from actual devs using it. They’re very positive about it.
Here’s a recent write up from a well known Hololens dev: https://brekel.com/my-thoughts-on-developing-with-magic-leap...
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look
Ironic that you think HoloLens would be the one that plays nice with every device when it’s already limited to Windows. Magic Leap on the other hand is a less than two week old device that already plays nice with iOS/Android/MacOS and Windows.
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look
Exactly. Take two minutes to look at the last popular posts about magic Leap here and it’s filled with patronizing criticism of anyone that thinks the product could either be real, not a scam, or actually good.
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is Magic Leap just vaporware?
Lots of confusion over this device, which can be chalked up to all the FUD spread around about it. Nearly half the 2 billion they got was in the last year alone. Investors like Google have been there since day one and not left.
Holomakerbot
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is Magic Leap just vaporware?
You may notice that nearly half their funding was gained in the last year, well after the existence of their current product.
