Magic Leap One Teardown

Re:Magic Leap One Teardown by samstave on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:23PM (#17830792)

while the qty will be low for some time to come, intel spent many many millions trying to prove there was even a market for a $1,000 computer and that it would provide performance acceptable to users...

we dont scoff at $1,000 phones hardly at all these days.

this is the first step, we should be thinking about where tech will be in 20 years at all times.

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Re:Magic Leap One Teardown by sytelus on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:16PM (#17832524)

You are forgetting the utility. A $2500 computer in 1992 without internet, GUI etc would be as hard sell as ML-1. As utility of the product increases, the $2500 price tag starts making sense. The biggest issue with AR is that we haven't found the killer application yet. It's not the form factor or field of view (we have had large computers with pathetic displays), it's the utility to a common consumer beyond few minutes of amusement.

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Re:Magic Leap One Teardown by karthikvellanki on Friday August 24, 2018 @04:09AM (#17833516)

Wouldn't gaming and e-sports be a decent application of AR?

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Re:Magic Leap One Teardown by freeone3000 on Friday August 24, 2018 @04:30PM (#17837681)

No, those usually go VR. VR headsets are currently much cheaper than these offerings, and even then, we're talking 400,000 units shipped.

Hololens is focusing on industry - live monitoring, architecture planning, 3d modelling and visualization. I don't know how successful they are.

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