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Re:Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel by sp332 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:35AM (#18185836)
No, it costs $2,300. They have developed the tech to do multiple stacked waveguides (12 I think?) but this device only does 2, probably for price reasons. Anyway the company is valued at $4.5 billion which has nothing to do with how much it will cost, only the amount of profit they think they can make from devices and patent licensing.
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Re:Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel by paulvorobyev on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:40AM (#18185896)
I think you misunderstood what he was saying. Magic Leap, as of now, has received $2.3B in the comments[1]. This is mentioned in the article's subtitle.

[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap

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Re:Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel by sp332 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:42AM (#18185924)
Yes but what they're buying is a share of the company and its profits. No one is paying $2.3B to develop the tech.
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Re:Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel by memebox3v on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:00PM (#18186134)
Not for price reasons. Its because the more wave guides you super glue together the more image disruption you get. It's allready blocking a significant proportion of the light, not to mention the splitting out of colors.
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Re:Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel by kopo on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:12PM (#18186244)
Any idea what they are doing differently from the Vuzix Blade?
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Re:Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel by moron4hire on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:22PM (#18186345)
Vuzix Blade is an "eye-mounted tablet". It has a basic orientation sensor in it, but it's really bad and most of the apps I've seen don't use it. You've basically got a low-power Android device in the corner of your eye, with an interface designed around three buttons.

It has a front-facing camera, but it's used strictly as a web-cam for "see what I see" calls and QR code detection. It does not do any environmental analysis.

About the only things they have in common is "they look like goggles".

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