Re:Magic Leap Review Part I
by cm2012 on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:37AM
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With all of their secrecy, you have no idea if they're being unethical or not. Their marketing materials are certainly nothing near reality.
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You're being completely disingenuous.
Magic Leap is a glorified toy. It is not going to affect your life.
Seems like you're moving the goalposts though: the original question was whether Magic Leap is "unethical," not how much damage they could do by being unethical. Releasing much-hyped, highly-produced, and very compelling marketing content while knowing your company can't possibly deliver on it certainly meets my bar for unethical.
It's certainly not as bad as Theranos, sure - but bilking consumers (or investors) can still be unethical too. If your bar for a company acting unethical requires literally killing people, you'll be overlooking a lot of bad behavior...
I’d agree otherwise, but the article mentions that Magic Leap is bidding for a $500M military contract.
Putting these toy lenses on soldiers can get people killed — both the fighters themselves as well as civilians are at risk from these digital goggles that block 86% of incoming light unless the AR graphics can do something really, really useful in the battlefield.
I doubt it's for the battlefield. More likely for planning, where you'd have a briefing with several people around a tabletop projection of the ground scene and AR tanks and characters moving around.
FTA: “for use with troops in the field (as opposed to training).”
Not quite clear either way. You could still be right, but the implication seems to be otherwise.
Re:Magic Leap Review Part I
by darkerside on Monday October 01, 2018 @07:42AM
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Until they start faking results to the DoD, the analogy falls completely flat
Re:Magic Leap Review Part I
by bryanrasmussen on Monday October 01, 2018 @08:08AM
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I wonder what legal repercussions one would be open to for faking results to DoD.
Re:Magic Leap Review Part I
by UpshotKnothole on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:44AM
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If the F35 is an example, I’d say a trillion dollar, ten year contract?