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I thought the same thing. Even with VR people held cameras up to the displays, or projected what they saw onto a monitor. With magic leap it was sooo secret.

I assumed garbage. I'm still not sure what I would be supposed to do with them.

>>LegitS+(OP)
I'd love to know how close the shipping product is to what Kevin Kelly and other journalists were shown under NDA before release.

>>LegitS+(OP)
VR allowed the signal going to the headset to also be displayed onto a regular monitor since the signal was the full image. With AR, it's just overlaying something onto a lens you see through to be able to see the real world. That signal displayed onto a regular monitor would probably just show the object with a matte or essentially the object over a black background. Think of a transparent PNG but in motion. That's not very exciting.

>>dylan6+33
It would at least show fidelity and detail. Instead they showed nothing so I assumed it was vaporware.

>>cridde+f2
me too because people were raving about it. I wonder how much influence was peddled, given the billions invested.

>>LegitS+Qg
Apples and oranges I think. Take video signal reproduction as an example. You can have the same signal routed to different display devices, and they image produced will look better/worse than the original. Compare it on a 1980s 3 lens RGB projection screen compared to a CRT compared to a modern OLED screen. Compare Google Cardboard VR headsets with a cheap plastic lens compared to the higher quality headsets.