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"Magic Leap is vaporware" Where are you getting that? The article seems to imply that feature to feature they are matching the Hololens and that is the worst ca

by pj_mukh 10y ago

"Magic Leap is vaporware" Where are you getting that? The article seems to imply that feature to feature they are matching the Hololens and that is the worst case scenario. Edit: On second thought you maybe meeting the exact definition of Vaporware in that they are not manufacturing it yet[1]. No indication that they won't be able to though. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

blahblah12 10y ago
The fact that they're still far away from getting to market . . . . Their platform strat of making devs work in seattle/sf and timeshare the devices . . . makes it seem as if they're going to fail super hard. Hololens is clearly out front. The device itself is really impressive. And I imagine V2 of the hardware is coming soon. Wait for more credible players to enter the space for real competition.
Arelius 10y ago
> The article seems to imply that feature to feature they are matching the Hololens and that is the worst case scenario. But the article specifically says "as it stands now, is noticeably inferior to Microsoft’s HoloLens headset" So I don't get how matching Hololens is the "worst case scenario"
flukus 10y ago
Microsoft has a product on sale, magic leap have a lot of big claims.
cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
Well it hasn't shipped for a long time, and as it stands now it's worse than its competition, not to mention they have way less resources than their competition. And probably the main reason they didn't ship until now is exactly because of all these reasons. Which means the more time they spend not shipping, the harder it will become for them to ship. I think it's fair to speculate that they will end up as vaporware. Only alternative I can see is them pivoting to a more niche field so that they don't directly compete with hololens. People started saying Duke Nukem Forever was a vaporware long before the parent company actually admitted it.
- flylib 10y ago
  "and as it stands now it's worse than its competition" except it isn't, the information article is one person's opinion and other people that have used the production device have said differently

by pj_mukh 10y ago

blahblah12 10y ago

The fact that they're still far away from getting to market . . . . Their platform strat of making devs work in seattle/sf and timeshare the devices . . . makes it seem as if they're going to fail super hard. Hololens is clearly out front. The device itself is really impressive. And I imagine V2 of the hardware is coming soon. Wait for more credible players to enter the space for real competition.

Arelius 10y ago

> The article seems to imply that feature to feature they are matching the Hololens and that is the worst case scenario. But the article specifically says "as it stands now, is noticeably inferior to Microsoft’s HoloLens headset" So I don't get how matching Hololens is the "worst case scenario"

flukus 10y ago

Microsoft has a product on sale, magic leap have a lot of big claims.

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago

Well it hasn't shipped for a long time, and as it stands now it's worse than its competition, not to mention they have way less resources than their competition. And probably the main reason they didn't ship until now is exactly because of all these reasons. Which means the more time they spend not shipping, the harder it will become for them to ship. I think it's fair to speculate that they will end up as vaporware. Only alternative I can see is them pivoting to a more niche field so that they don't directly compete with hololens. People started saying Duke Nukem Forever was a vaporware long before the parent company actually admitted it.

flylib 10y ago
"and as it stands now it's worse than its competition" except it isn't, the information article is one person's opinion and other people that have used the production device have said differently