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It's a concept video done by a special effects company well known for The Lord of the Rings and Avatar. The YT description "This is a game we’re playing around

by frik 12y ago

It's a concept video done by a special effects company well known for The Lord of the Rings and Avatar. The YT description "This is a game we’re playing around the office right now" is a bit provocative and without a real demonstration it's just PR. Video on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0xM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0xM Company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Workshop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Workshop , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Digital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Digital It's called augmented reality and more basic implementations are already possible for some time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality @Downvoter: what's wrong?

teraflop 12y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I suspect it's because this whole comment thread is about trying to determine whether or not the video is real footage of Magic Leap's tech. Asserting that it is or it isn't, without something to back up that assertion, isn't all that helpful. Nowhere in the video description does it say that it's just a concept.
- frik 12y ago
  > without something to back up that assertion, isn't all that helpful The video credits list Weta prominently - that's alone is a significant signal. The guns are props from Weta too: https://www.wetanz.com/rayguns/ https://www.wetanz.com/rayguns/ CEO Rony Abovitz, who was supposed to go onstage at the TED conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, has canceled his talk. Why would a CEO cancel such a high profile talk and release that video afterwards? More info: http://recode.net/2015/03/16/magic-leap-googles-high-profile-3-d-tech-bet-just-cancelled-its-high-profile-appearances-why/ http://recode.net/2015/03/16/magic-leap-googles-high-profile... , http://recode.net/2015/03/19/the-first-video-of-magic-leaps-technology-looks-fake/ http://recode.net/2015/03/19/the-first-video-of-magic-leaps-... . I tested two state of the art augmented reality glasses (university research prototypes) last year. The glass was connected (via cable) to a workstation PC with several high end NVidia graphic cards. One also used Xbox Kinect to track the environment and the arms. Everything shown in the video is already possible, but not with that perfect visual quality and without any latency.
rodgerd 12y ago
> It's a concept video done by a special effects company well known for The Lord of the Rings and Avatar. The YT description "This is a game we’re playing around the office right now" is a bit provocative and without a real demonstration it's just PR. It's worth noting Peter Jackson has made an entire documentary on a forgotten genius of the New Zealand film industry that turned out to be a (good-natured) hoax. I'm perfectly prepared to believe the guy responsible for Forgotten Silver would have a team around him who might do the same for VR.
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- simoncion 12y ago
  Last I heard about D-Wave, official word was something along the lines of "There's something interesting going on in this machine (even though it's not quite what our models lead us to expect from a quantum computer), and it's better than regular hardware at some classes of problems, but we're not sure what's going on, or exactly why it's better.". Has there been new news in the past year or so?
  - leohutson 12y ago
    I'm not really an expert, but last year a there was a study that showed there was no quantum speedup. http://katzgraber.org/currents/media/press/2014-06-science_long.PDF http://katzgraber.org/currents/media/press/2014-06-science_l... I also read this blog: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 That was what convinced me, but it's a bit over my head so perhaps I shouldn't be convinced. I just thought there was some similarity to it in terms of the hype vs the public information available.

by frik 12y ago

teraflop 12y ago

I didn't downvote you, but I suspect it's because this whole comment thread is about trying to determine whether or not the video is real footage of Magic Leap's tech. Asserting that it is or it isn't, without something to back up that assertion, isn't all that helpful. Nowhere in the video description does it say that it's just a concept.

frik 12y ago
> without something to back up that assertion, isn't all that helpful The video credits list Weta prominently - that's alone is a significant signal. The guns are props from Weta too: https://www.wetanz.com/rayguns/ https://www.wetanz.com/rayguns/ CEO Rony Abovitz, who was supposed to go onstage at the TED conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, has canceled his talk. Why would a CEO cancel such a high profile talk and release that video afterwards? More info: http://recode.net/2015/03/16/magic-leap-googles-high-profile-3-d-tech-bet-just-cancelled-its-high-profile-appearances-why/ http://recode.net/2015/03/16/magic-leap-googles-high-profile... , http://recode.net/2015/03/19/the-first-video-of-magic-leaps-technology-looks-fake/ http://recode.net/2015/03/19/the-first-video-of-magic-leaps-... . I tested two state of the art augmented reality glasses (university research prototypes) last year. The glass was connected (via cable) to a workstation PC with several high end NVidia graphic cards. One also used Xbox Kinect to track the environment and the arms. Everything shown in the video is already possible, but not with that perfect visual quality and without any latency.

rodgerd 12y ago

> It's a concept video done by a special effects company well known for The Lord of the Rings and Avatar. The YT description "This is a game we’re playing around the office right now" is a bit provocative and without a real demonstration it's just PR. It's worth noting Peter Jackson has made an entire documentary on a forgotten genius of the New Zealand film industry that turned out to be a (good-natured) hoax. I'm perfectly prepared to believe the guy responsible for Forgotten Silver would have a team around him who might do the same for VR.

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simoncion 12y ago
Last I heard about D-Wave, official word was something along the lines of "There's something interesting going on in this machine (even though it's not quite what our models lead us to expect from a quantum computer), and it's better than regular hardware at some classes of problems, but we're not sure what's going on, or exactly why it's better.". Has there been new news in the past year or so?
- leohutson 12y ago
  I'm not really an expert, but last year a there was a study that showed there was no quantum speedup. http://katzgraber.org/currents/media/press/2014-06-science_long.PDF http://katzgraber.org/currents/media/press/2014-06-science_l... I also read this blog: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 That was what convinced me, but it's a bit over my head so perhaps I shouldn't be convinced. I just thought there was some similarity to it in terms of the hype vs the public information available.