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Hey all, avaer is streaming hacking on the Magic Leap SDK, live now: https://www.twitch.tv/avaer https://www.twitch.tv/avaer (Streams pretty much daily.) You c

by shawn 9y ago

Hey all, avaer is streaming hacking on the Magic Leap SDK, live now: https://www.twitch.tv/avaer https://www.twitch.tv/avaer (Streams pretty much daily.) You can see past coding sessions here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeboI7dMETmnUro91AxJZA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeboI7dMETmnUro91AxJZA I was skeptical of Magic Leap too, but their SDK is very real. Maybe seeing it in action might dispel some of the concerns.

pavlov 9y ago
An SDK is of no use if the hardware doesn’t live up. The Apple Newton had a really nice software stack too.
- shawn 9y ago
  Very true. What caught my attention as a graphics dev is how legit their SDK design was: https://rawgit.com/shawwn/magic-leap-docs/master/v0.11.1/api/html/modules.html https://rawgit.com/shawwn/magic-leap-docs/master/v0.11.1/api... i.e. If you imagine writing an SDK for a bag of hot air, it seems like it would turn out very different from what you see there. It's also small and tasteful. That caught me too. I didn't expect a big company to put out something elegant, but they seem to know what they're doing. You're right though -- it all comes down to the hardware. We'll found out later this year.
  - pavlov 9y ago
    The SDK looks good, but I don’t see any big surprises: it looks quite similar to the Oculus and Microsoft Hololens frameworks. It seems like the kind of SDK a highly competent software team might develop just by extrapolating from competitors’ shipping hardware.
  - Noah_A_S 9y ago
    Hey Shawn, I just made my YC account thought I'd say Hi. and yes, it's a legitimate SDK nothing could be more real. I can't wait for the runtime. I wonder if it's anything like the framework you and Adrian have cooked up btw since I'm brand new to YC do you think you could maybe teach me how to mention someone on YC, or is it not something you can do? I'll see you in the morning on slack. :)
- Holomakerbot 9y ago
  The Rolling Stone writer who tried it in December was impressed (of course that’s not to say he thought it was perfect either) and people at GDC who demoed it were also impressed. It’s looking less and less like this is the next theranos as everyone loves to say.
  - krenzo 9y ago
    The Rolling Stone writer later wrote on Reddit they would not buy Magic Leap One and would wait for a larger FOV. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7lj7sf/i_am_the_journalist_that_tried_out_the_magic_leap/drmw7rb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7lj7sf/i_am_the_journ...
    - nl 9y ago
      They wouldn't buy one for $2000. Do we know what the likely price of the consumer models are? I can easily imagine dev kits staying around $2000 for a while, but that might be different to the consumer versions.

by shawn 9y ago

pavlov 9y ago

An SDK is of no use if the hardware doesn’t live up. The Apple Newton had a really nice software stack too.

shawn 9y ago
Very true. What caught my attention as a graphics dev is how legit their SDK design was: https://rawgit.com/shawwn/magic-leap-docs/master/v0.11.1/api/html/modules.html https://rawgit.com/shawwn/magic-leap-docs/master/v0.11.1/api... i.e. If you imagine writing an SDK for a bag of hot air, it seems like it would turn out very different from what you see there. It's also small and tasteful. That caught me too. I didn't expect a big company to put out something elegant, but they seem to know what they're doing. You're right though -- it all comes down to the hardware. We'll found out later this year.
- pavlov 9y ago
  The SDK looks good, but I don’t see any big surprises: it looks quite similar to the Oculus and Microsoft Hololens frameworks. It seems like the kind of SDK a highly competent software team might develop just by extrapolating from competitors’ shipping hardware.
- Noah_A_S 9y ago
  Hey Shawn, I just made my YC account thought I'd say Hi. and yes, it's a legitimate SDK nothing could be more real. I can't wait for the runtime. I wonder if it's anything like the framework you and Adrian have cooked up btw since I'm brand new to YC do you think you could maybe teach me how to mention someone on YC, or is it not something you can do? I'll see you in the morning on slack. :)
Holomakerbot 9y ago
The Rolling Stone writer who tried it in December was impressed (of course that’s not to say he thought it was perfect either) and people at GDC who demoed it were also impressed. It’s looking less and less like this is the next theranos as everyone loves to say.
- krenzo 9y ago
  The Rolling Stone writer later wrote on Reddit they would not buy Magic Leap One and would wait for a larger FOV. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7lj7sf/i_am_the_journalist_that_tried_out_the_magic_leap/drmw7rb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7lj7sf/i_am_the_journ...
  - nl 9y ago
    They wouldn't buy one for $2000. Do we know what the likely price of the consumer models are? I can easily imagine dev kits staying around $2000 for a while, but that might be different to the consumer versions.