Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets

Re:Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets by lowglow on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:20PM (#11789444)

This is the first time I've seen someone refer to this tech as "artificial reality" -- interesting!

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Re:Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets by mattbush on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:36PM (#11789826)

Is "artificial reality" a term that AR/VR companies are actually starting to throw around, or is possible that the term arose out of reporters mistakenly thinking "AR" stands for stands for "artificial reality" and not "augmented reality"?

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Re:Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets by xsmasher on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:21PM (#11789763)

Companies like to use nonstandard terms so they can claim that they are "the only ones working in the artificial reality space."

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Re:Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets by alaskamiller on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:27PM (#11789493)

Old school term from the 60's. Here's a book about it.

http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Reality-2nd-Myron-Krueger/d...

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Re:Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets by lowglow on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:09PM (#11790168)

Yeah, I saw the history of the term from Wikipedia, but curious as to why they dug it back up.

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Re:Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 28, 2016 @03:35AM (#11790908)

Probably because it confuses nicely with AR while offering some neat marketing opportunities.

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