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by Holomakerbot 4y ago
Price needs to come down and it needs to be wireless. I would wager 3-5 years just for wireless. Could be a decade for price to come down under a thousand. But I also think by then the separate processor wont be necessary anymore, either us
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by Holomakerbot 4y ago
Have you seen the breakthroughs that Magic Leap 2 has achieved? Still not at the price point for consumers but it pretty much solves all the annoyances of the first device or HoloLens for that matter. No longer looking through a tiny FOV, h
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by Holomakerbot 4y ago
The irony with Karl’s blog is that he’s done nearly a 180 on Magic Leap with the debut of their second product. They’ve ironically becciome relevant again, just not in the consumer space at all.
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by Holomakerbot 4y ago
There is a middle ground between hardware being ubiquitous and being like 3D Tv that fizzled out just a few years after launching. VR has been growing exponentially each year since its consumer launch in 2016. AR will just open up the use c
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by Holomakerbot 4y ago
People should really google this before asking the question multiple times.
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by Holomakerbot 4y ago
They have two products. The second one has already been getting a lot of praise for two major breakthroughs— the ability to display black and the largest FOV in a see through optical headset. The whole topic of this thread is a bit of a str
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by Holomakerbot 7y ago
Honestly, with high priced dev kits they just need to be given out for free like Valve did with the Vive. Magic leap has given out thousands just to get devs on board.
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by Holomakerbot 7y ago
Not really. Remember that before their device launched they were ridiculed for being too honest and showing the rock throwing guy demo. This was months before you could buy it: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/273280-
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by Holomakerbot 7y ago
He's underestimating (though not by a whole lot probably). The 6k numbers from the above article refer to the first 6 months sale. Guttag is talking about the last 18 months. Also doesn't account for the headsets that have been se
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by Holomakerbot 7y ago
Notice that zero VR companies show you through the lens footage. This is not restricted to Magic Leap. You can find amateur attempts by owners to shoot through Magic Leap, Hololens, and various VR headsets if you go on Youtube and Twitter
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by Holomakerbot 7y ago
That's just how it goes with AR, you can find some amateur clips people have tried to shoot through the lens themselves but it's very difficult. Even Microsoft doesn't shoot through the lens and has gotten similar flack. Best
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Hololens 2 Is Likely Using Laser Beam Scanning Display: Bad Combined with Worse(kguttag.com)
4 points by Holomakerbot 8y ago|0 comments
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
You’ll actually be hard pressed to find any press anywhere that thinks the hardware is bad.
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
This was reported just the other day: "The original HoloLens has been out for a long time now, so a new (hopefully cheaper) version is overdue, but it now looks like we won’t see it before 2020." https://www.techradar.c
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
The silver lining is that devs actually really like the device. Despite the hype/reality factor that tainted the initial reviews the consensus is that the device itself is actually quite good. If all you read are the negatives, especia
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
You either didn't notice or forgot the bad press Hololens endured for misleading advertising: https://mashable.com/2015/10/06/microsoft-hololens-misleadin... https://www.theverge.com/2015
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
Most reviews acknowledge that despite it not being a huge technological advancement it’s still the best standalone AR headset. Second, devs love it. Check out the activity on social media or hands on reviews from actual devs using it. They’
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
Ironic that you think HoloLens would be the one that plays nice with every device when it’s already limited to Windows. Magic Leap on the other hand is a less than two week old device that already plays nice with iOS/Android/MacOS
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
Exactly. Take two minutes to look at the last popular posts about magic Leap here and it’s filled with patronizing criticism of anyone that thinks the product could either be real, not a scam, or actually good.
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
Lots of confusion over this device, which can be chalked up to all the FUD spread around about it. Nearly half the 2 billion they got was in the last year alone. Investors like Google have been there since day one and not left.
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
You may notice that nearly half their funding was gained in the last year, well after the existence of their current product.
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
Not even that really. They got series A funding in 2014. Releases this August. That’s less time than most Rockstar games.
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
This is a silly question. It just passed through the FCC and is launching next week.
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
So far it's the only headset coming to market that contains all of the following: Standalone, eye tracking, variable focal planes, hand tracking and a 6DOF controller, and a significant increase in FOV over Hololens (roughly 55 degrees
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
This is one of the strongest counter arguments to all the cynicism in these comments. Sure they didn’t give specs but guess what neither did Hololens until preorders opened. The main thing they haven’t done yet is a live demo which we know
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
They gave private demos at GDC in March. https://twitter.com/radiocurea/status/976549719664050176?s=2...
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
None of those companies are building a full stack computing platform.
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
Magic leap did not raise $2.3b 8 years ago. They raised that amount gradually over the course of the last 4 years.
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
That’s the opposite of what the very thorough hands on Rolling Stone article had to say about it. Why are we even speculating about the user experience at this point?
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by Holomakerbot 8y ago
And yet this analysis from someone who hasn’t even touched the actual hardware or even has specs to base his analysis on is painting a completely different picture than the people who have reported on it since December. People are right to

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