Re:Magic Leap’s technology may be years away from completion
by bhouston on Friday December 09, 2016 @07:59AM
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Here is the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0xM It doesn't have any disclaimers that this was faked -- some earlier videos from Magic Leap did have disclaimers.
It is obviously too high resolution and pixel perfect to be from a headset display though. So it didn't fool me, but I think the way it is presented could be quite misleading to folks without a 3D background.
EDIT: Later when Magic Leap did post videos that didn't use post production to create the effects, they put in a disclaimer that it was real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0-JRa9n94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCVd9ZDPjXU
Re:Magic Leap’s technology may be years away from completion
by jobigoud on Friday December 09, 2016 @04:45AM
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Well yes, you do have to have an engineer mindset to pick this type of details.
Re:Magic Leap’s technology may be years away from completion
by obj-g on Friday December 09, 2016 @10:53AM
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Yeah, it's funny how they think they got some scoop here. It was obviously a concept video. Totally obvious, and not just from what you mentioned, just the look and feel of the whole thing in general.
Was this ever really in doubt? You don't have to be a physicist or AR expert to note that throughout the video they occlude bright background colours with dark AR elements - somehow projecting 'black light'. Whilst I wouldn't expect the man on the street to pick this up it would be nice if journalists about to pen a breathless puff piece would at least give the subject matter 30 seconds of consideration.