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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by paxys on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:21PM (#21725598)
The original Microsoft HoloLens was $3000-$5000 and sold 50,000 units in two years. Now the US Army is paying them $480 million for 100,000 units. The problem isn't the price IMO, but the fact that Magic Leap hasn't been able to make a case for what exactly it should be used for. Random enthusiasts aren't going to shell out thousands of dollars, but a company or government definitely will.
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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by pvarangot on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:31PM (#21725685)
The problem is that it doesn't work, it's bad. You can make a bad product with a company with a "valuation" in the billions, we need to start to understand that. And there's good alternatives to the product that actually do work better at a similar price point.

This is not a "product market fit" problem, this is bad tech being pushed down the pipes until it makes it out of a fucked up company.

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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by ericd on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:17PM (#21726551)
In what way is it bad? From the various video reviews I’ve seen, it seems to work a lot better than the Hololens circa a couple years ago.
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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by cma on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:54PM (#21727928)
It seems to be significantly worse than the Lenovo AR toy lightsaber thing that clips onto your phone (similar to Meta’s design).
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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by gbear605 on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:46PM (#21726791)
Other reviews in this post say that it’s not even as good as the original Hololens
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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by tigershark on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:37PM (#21727854)
I would call bullshit on that. Just the double FOV would make it barely usable compared to completely useless like the first hololens.
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