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[return to "My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead"]
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1. leetro+Y6[view] [source] 2021-10-12 11:40:38
>>74d-fe+(OP)
If you have not experienced the magic leap videos do not do it justice.

Heres my video flying inside my house:

https://youtu.be/Grlk03MdScQ

The jaw dropping aspects:

- it correctly knows when to mask for the column

- it does lighting effects from the planes headlights

- it does particle collisions with my furniture when it crashes

- it crashes by detecting i hit the wall

It really is amazing tech but it is very unpolished. But I am very hopeful they keep pushing and it gets cheaper and more people can experience it and develop for it.

This is like the amiga. We are at the infancy of AR.

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2. sydthr+qi[view] [source] 2021-10-12 13:17:06
>>leetro+Y6
Are you serious? This looks like an undergraduate project hacked up with OpenCV.. I'd still give it an A though.
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3. leetro+Zn[view] [source] 2021-10-12 13:48:12
>>sydthr+qi
As I said, video does not do it justice. If you walk around while flying everything stays very well locked in place.

It probably _is_ using OpenCV under the hood.

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4. goneho+nr1[view] [source] 2021-10-12 18:58:21
>>leetro+Zn
I normally don't like to pile on with negativity, but I'd argue the video does do it justice. I played with one myself (the only one I ever saw in the wild and she only had one because her SO was one of the original investors) and it was similar to what the video shows. My first experience with VR was impressive, Magic Leap was a disappointment.

The background is dark, the occlusions are bad, the hardware is large, and the FOV is poor.

Magic Leap really burned a lot of good will imo by sucking up enormous amounts of AR funding having 'demo' marketing that was at best intentionally misleading if not just fraudulent.

I'm still bullish on AR being the next platform when the hardware is ready, but I'd bet on Apple or Oculus pulling that off, I wouldn't go near anything from Magic Leap.

This about sums it up: https://twitter.com/fernandojsg/status/1017411969169555457

It's a little reminiscent of General Magic - something like the AR they want is likely to exist in the future, but I'd surprised if it's from them.

Can you imagine Steve Jobs shipping something at the quality level of that video?

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