My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead

>>74d-fe+(OP)
If you have not experienced the magic leap videos do not do it justice.

Heres my video flying inside my house:

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.

>>leetro+Y6
Are you serious? This looks like an undergraduate project hacked up with OpenCV.. I'd still give it an A though.

>>sydthr+qi
Yeah. I'm kind of left feeling like I'd rather fly the plane in a better looking simulated environment, with a first-person perspective. It's more flexible and fun than being tied to flying it in the environment around you.

I still haven't seen a compelling use case for AR.

>>snek_c+xo
Coolest one I’ve seen is VR workspaces. Buying a $5k setup per head where they can work from space or the Grand Canyon with unlimited monitors, sit/stand/lay down, software upgrades (only a few pieces of hardware to replace), virtual meetings, building and modeling anything they want, etc

It’s still kinda clunky now, but the tech will get better. That’s a money saver (and a big improvement) with the main barriers being tech and familiarity, and those just come with time. Very bullish on that

>>tjs8rj+Hp1
I dunno, I still can't quite see the potential of that. And even if they did get it working perfectly, then they're following in the footsteps of other people who've already done this on headsets that are a fraction of the price (like Immersed or Virtual Desktop).

Even if they do manage to create mind-blowing hardware, they aren't exactly cornering a market here.

>>smolde+mq1
AR seems to me like one of those technologies that people keep claiming is definitely going to be "the future" even though the use cases are dubious.

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