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1. dare94+fD[view] [source] 2025-07-11 15:22:56
>>cainxi+(OP)
Off-topic, but I have to...

(From the photo caption) "Bill ... with his iphone prototype"

Nope. That's a Sony Magic Link, built by Bill (and others, myself included) during his time at General Magic. I feel General Magic is another one of Bill's endeavors that isn't widely understood or appreciated.

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2. radica+V21[view] [source] 2025-07-11 17:22:30
>>dare94+fD
There was a great documentary on Magic Leap! https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com
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3. Strato+ea1[view] [source] 2025-07-11 18:05:09
>>radica+V21
That is a great documentary, but it's about General Magic, not Magic Leap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap

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4. DonHop+ow2[view] [source] 2025-07-12 08:57:02
>>Strato+ea1
Here's the real story behind "Magic Creep":

>>28838332

Not to be confused with General Magic, which wasn't a money grubbing fraud from day one, which didn't put on the most ridiculous obnoxious unenlightening cocaine addled TedX talk in the history of the universe, which didn't post fraudulent obviously impossibly fake demos to youtube falsely claiming "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap", which didn't have a toxic nepotistic bro culture that excluded and belittled women, that didn't settle a huge lawsuit for sex discrimination against the one woman they hired to fix the "pink/blue problem" but then rebuffed and ignored, that didn't burn through billions of investment dollars producing nothing of value, which didn't blatantly rip off many people's original ideas in their unoriginal invalid fraudulent patent applications, which didn't publish an astounding but physically impossible video of a whale leaping out the gym floor and splashing down while hundreds of children not wearing AR headsets were somehow magically able to perceive it and clap and cheer and say "WOOOAAAHH!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpqwUUfMAQ

https://x.com/fernandojsg/status/1017411969169555457

Magic Leap gave magic a bad name (and was the biggest disgrace of the entire AR industry, even spectacularly worse than a certain Google Glasshole publishing a nude selfie of himself in the shower), while General Magic truly was the good kind of magic.

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