This is huge news for this secretive company so it's unfortunate that this submission got flagged. I don't think they were ever upfront about what their device can really achieve before.
A lot of the stuff you highlighted are especially interesting since other popular HMD don't have them yet (for example eye tracking and of course their lightfield stuff). Even a 6DOF tracked controller was a surprising feature to me since they don't seem to use any extra external sensors like oculus/vive.
Re:Magic Leap SDK
by Holomakerbot on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:19PM
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“I don't think they were ever upfront about what their device can really achieve before.”
They’ve been very upfront about this. The problem is all the noise that’s been generated by armchair critics who have spammed every article about them calling them a scam/vaporware/the next Theranos, etc.
* 6-DOF tracked controller
* Eye tracking
* Multiple depth of field display
* Persistent location tracking across multiple rooms
And limitations:
* FOV is going to be rather small
* Variable depth-of-field doesn't work well with objects less than a foot (30 cm) from your face
* Takes a few seconds for the system to adjust when you move real objects around (so if you move your couch, it won't notice instantly)