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Magic Leap goes against all the concepts we learned in "startup schools" - launch fast and iterate, get feedback, pivot and grow with your users etc.. they wor
by sagivo 10y ago
Magic Leap goes against all the concepts we learned in "startup schools" - launch fast and iterate, get feedback, pivot and grow with your users etc..
they work away from the public for product they don't know if the public want. it's a bet, i hope it will pay off.
- pinot 10y agoMore the school of Dean Kamen.
- andygates 10y agoThey can't launch until the thing is at least portable - and in the carefully-managed rumours are right, it started out as an optics bench and then a tethered rack and ... nobody's seen anything that can be launched. We're still waiting for that "DK1".
- sprafa 10y agoIf appearances are to be trusted, Magic Leap is not doing a DK1. Considering the hundreds of people they've hired and their partners (Disney, ILM, Weta) They are launching with applications already, a bit like a games console more than anything.
- angersock 10y agoThe gospel preached in modern startup circles is uniquely unsuited to certain product types. That doesn't mean that it is wrong, necessarily, but that it isn't always exactly applicable.
- swalsh 10y agoThese guys aren't building an invoicing app. They're building a brand new high-tech platform. The traditional startup approach clearly isn't going to work well here. The line for what a "minimum viable product" could be is pretty high... and once it is out, you can't upgrade it again (well not cost effectively at least). Hardware has a different cycle. Traditional waterfall methodology is still kind of essential for hardware. Frankly, I'm super excited something like this is coming out of a startup, and not Apple. It's nice to have some diversity.
- bpicolo 10y ago> Traditional waterfall methodology is still kind of essential for hardware. I mean, if you read the article they claim they're doing Agile-hardware instead