I also bought one of those. Goodness, how far from the marketing that was.
Honestly, I'm embarrassed I was taken in by the hubris, a little thought about how practical it would be should have been enough. The later firmware did improve it, but sitting waving hands is so inefficient. Hey ho.
Yeah, but they’re delivering something so far from what was promised to get funding, and from the bulk of their patents that DNF is a better comparison. They promised the world, photonics magic, and they’re delivering a strikingly sub-par HoloLens.
Lots of confusion over this device, which can be chalked up to all the FUD spread around about it. Nearly half the 2 billion they got was in the last year alone. Investors like Google have been there since day one and not left.
Some of their tech is awesome (as confirmed by friends who have tried it), but they are struggling to solve the final technical issues and get it to market.
It does not matter.
With every fail, the gap to the goal narrows, until one, walks over the bridge, beyond which - lays the ultimate price.
Being the first to wrap a new device-layer around our lives.
Making obsolete:
- all devices who came before (Your desktop, cellphone, VR-Googles, TVs..)
- all not touch based furniture and decoration
- all advertisement, because blending over those adds
- all visual show related buisness (4th july fireworks ?
Thats my alarm-clock every day)
- all social status networks- cause Instagram photos are nice, but having your accomplishment grow out of your footsteps in 3d, is nicer)
To Sum it up: This will euthanize a large part of the real-world economy, replacing them with Mad-Haters a'la steam - with the potential for a nice 15 % margin on all virtual goods.
So Magic Leap fails? So what, just another body in ditch, building the bridge.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 52.3 ms ] threadI guess at this point leapmotion is far enough in the past that it's meager ripples have basically vanished.
Honestly, I'm embarrassed I was taken in by the hubris, a little thought about how practical it would be should have been enough. The later firmware did improve it, but sitting waving hands is so inefficient. Hey ho.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever
The AR mapping looked like what snapchat had a year ago.
The Magic Leap One does not fulfill the brand promise that garnered the company all the VC it has. That would make it vaporware.
Some of their tech is awesome (as confirmed by friends who have tried it), but they are struggling to solve the final technical issues and get it to market.
Making obsolete:
- all devices who came before (Your desktop, cellphone, VR-Googles, TVs..)
- all not touch based furniture and decoration
- all advertisement, because blending over those adds
- all visual show related buisness (4th july fireworks ? Thats my alarm-clock every day)
- all social status networks- cause Instagram photos are nice, but having your accomplishment grow out of your footsteps in 3d, is nicer)
To Sum it up: This will euthanize a large part of the real-world economy, replacing them with Mad-Haters a'la steam - with the potential for a nice 15 % margin on all virtual goods.
So Magic Leap fails? So what, just another body in ditch, building the bridge.