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Re:Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from co... by wastedhours on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:01AM (#22953758)
> we are very far away

For different definitions of "very far away". We're only talking about 15 years since we started getting proper video recording in phones, and only about 4 since the big players started focusing on software enhancements.

Re:Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from co... by idavidrein on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:39AM (#22965000)
that's a fair point, but vision is such a high-dimensional and dynamic input that my feeling is the last 20% of super-fast autofocus, auto color balancing, high dynamic range, removing motion-blur, etc. will be very difficult to improve upon. it seems that just increasing brightness/fov by making better waveguides or MEMS will be much easier. that being said, magic leap's lack of success doesn't bode well.