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Re:Magic Leap One Teardown by DmenshunlAnlsis on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:17PM (#17829466)
The wired to your goggles belt mounted computer strikes me as a hazard and source of potential discomfort, and is noticeably absent from its nearest competitor. Those cables aren’t break-away, so with your view of the real world dimmed by 80%+ and your FOV narrowed life could get pretty interesting.
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Re:Magic Leap One Teardown by erikpukinskis on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:25PM (#17829527)
OK, I have to go Google its nearest competitor now, to try to understand your point of comparison...

Edit: I think you're talking about Hololens, which does put all of the batteries on your head. Yes, I think you've correctly identified another company taking a different approach. And you've correctly identified the usability trafeoff associated with the belt-mounted battery. I maintain that the tradeoffs are such that we will see many companies using non-head-mounted batteries in order to support longer use sessions.

Hololens is notably not good enough, graphically. Neither is Magic Leap. I don't contest that you can do a not-good-enough head mounted computer

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Re:Magic Leap One Teardown by VectorLock on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:30PM (#17830446)
Wired to a belt mounted computer doesn't sound dangerous. Wired to a fixed computer sitting near by, that sounds dangerous.
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Re:Magic Leap One Teardown by samstave on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:27PM (#17830834)
dont worry. wireless headsets are a lot closer than you think.
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