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
The use case is a virtual meta-layer for the real world where you can interact with stuff without needing to look at a small glass handheld display.

Things like, pulling up addresses of buildings you look at, names of people you've met, line on ground for gps, playing board games with people without needing a board or dealing with the rule book (software assisted), see meta information floating around devices (battery level, year, serial number), etc. etc.

The UX of phones is pretty good but it suffers from its form factor. If you could have a UX for the world you can really enable a lot more human abilities in a really intuitive way and you can get closer to something that feels like telepathy.

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