Re:Magic Leap is neither magic nor leaping
by edblarney on Saturday January 21, 2017 @07:54AM
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"Augmented reality is inevitable and someone will make it happen."
True.
"Now, the logic is that whoever pours the most money into it will win the race and with patents be in a monopoly position."
This is not quite true :).
My bet is that the quality of AR that we see in their hype videos will not be possible on a consumer scale until after the core patents have run out :).
This is a 'disruptive' technology but it's still way behind practical applicability.
We see this in every industry - and sometimes it takes quite a long time for products to come to fruition :)
True.
"Now, the logic is that whoever pours the most money into it will win the race and with patents be in a monopoly position."
This is not quite true :).
My bet is that the quality of AR that we see in their hype videos will not be possible on a consumer scale until after the core patents have run out :).
This is a 'disruptive' technology but it's still way behind practical applicability.
We see this in every industry - and sometimes it takes quite a long time for products to come to fruition :)