Re:Magic Leap One now available for $2295
by gowld on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:26PM
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It's new tech. It's not for you to keep in your closet. It's for hotels and arcades and parties and other such rental use cases.
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Re:Magic Leap One now available for $2295
by scosman on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:56PM
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It's called the "creator edition". I'd dare to say this release is targeted at devs/creators.
Re:Magic Leap One now available for $2295
by killerpopiller on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:32PM
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I remain sceptical and feel reminded on the 3D-Displays in the late 90ies from 4D-Vision, later x3d and then opticality. 3D without glasses but no content (except some plugins for 3D-SW) to drive adoption.
I'd be skeptical you get sufficient volume with just specialty uses.
Magic Leap only needs to sell (roughly) 17% as many Ones as Oculus Rifts, to have equivalent sales ($2.3k vs $400 device).
And while their current hardware is expensive, I would bet that their longterm plan isn't to sell devices that cost more than $2000.
Re:Magic Leap One now available for $2295
by albinofrenchy on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:03PM
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Equivalent sales is a nonsensical metric between the two. I doubt their profit margin is 5x per device compared to the rift.