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It's exactly the opposite. Hololens is 3000$, it's heavier on your head because it has only one piece, the battery life is shorter and the field of view is much

It's exactly the opposite. Hololens is 3000$, it's heavier on your head because it has only one piece, the battery life is shorter and the field of view is much smaller (30x17.5 for hololens vs 40X30 for magic leap).

yborg 8y ago
50° FOV. It's still like looking at the world through a shoebox strapped to your face.
- freeone3000 8y ago
  Note that both technologies are "augmented reality" - as in, the field of view listed is for the holographic augmentation, not the entire visible world, whose field of view is unchanged (but darker).
  - shiftpgdn 8y ago
    Have you used a hololens? The small FOV is very jarring.
    - tigershark 8y ago
      The strange thing is that most of the people that are attacking so harshly magic leap in this thread have business link with hololens that has really an abysmal FOV. Disclosure: I’m not buying a magic leap, I have no financial interest on it, I just want some working environment that I would really really enjoy.
freeone3000 8y ago
Magic Leap is marketed as $2500. That's $500 cheaper, or 15% of the price. Essentially meaningless for anyone planning to buy one. Claimed battery life for Magic Leap is 3 hours, claimed battery life for hololens is 5.5 hours. (I've personally gotten a bit longer but that's not objective.) Weight concerns are valid - I wish they included actual figures for the weight of the Magic Leap for comparison.
- tigershark 8y ago
  No, it's marketed at 2295. Hololens ia a bit more than 30% more expensive, I would not say that it is not meaningless. Doing what on hololens for 5.5 hours?
  - freeone3000 8y ago
    Application testing. 3D scenes rendered on top, a few holograms, remote debugging enabled.
raesene9 8y ago
Of course the challenge is you're comparing Magic Leap's current Tech. with what Hololens released over 2 years ago. What will be very interesting is to see what Microsoft have come up with when they release their next version (which is looking like Q1 2019). If Magicleap is still well ahead at that point, then it shoudl go well for them, but if MS can leapfrog them, that's going to dampen their prospects.

yborg 8y ago

50° FOV. It's still like looking at the world through a shoebox strapped to your face.

freeone3000 8y ago
Note that both technologies are "augmented reality" - as in, the field of view listed is for the holographic augmentation, not the entire visible world, whose field of view is unchanged (but darker).
- shiftpgdn 8y ago
  Have you used a hololens? The small FOV is very jarring.
  - tigershark 8y ago
    The strange thing is that most of the people that are attacking so harshly magic leap in this thread have business link with hololens that has really an abysmal FOV. Disclosure: I’m not buying a magic leap, I have no financial interest on it, I just want some working environment that I would really really enjoy.

freeone3000 8y ago

Magic Leap is marketed as $2500. That's $500 cheaper, or 15% of the price. Essentially meaningless for anyone planning to buy one. Claimed battery life for Magic Leap is 3 hours, claimed battery life for hololens is 5.5 hours. (I've personally gotten a bit longer but that's not objective.) Weight concerns are valid - I wish they included actual figures for the weight of the Magic Leap for comparison.

tigershark 8y ago
No, it's marketed at 2295. Hololens ia a bit more than 30% more expensive, I would not say that it is not meaningless. Doing what on hololens for 5.5 hours?
- freeone3000 8y ago
  Application testing. 3D scenes rendered on top, a few holograms, remote debugging enabled.

raesene9 8y ago

Of course the challenge is you're comparing Magic Leap's current Tech. with what Hololens released over 2 years ago. What will be very interesting is to see what Microsoft have come up with when they release their next version (which is looking like Q1 2019). If Magicleap is still well ahead at that point, then it shoudl go well for them, but if MS can leapfrog them, that's going to dampen their prospects.