The synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY
Hold my beer...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838421
>Are you referring to the sex discrimination lawsuit and nepotistic sexist bro culture that tarnished Magic Leap's reputation? [...]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838500
>Or are you referring to the ridiculous 12/12/2012 TEDX "talk" that Rony Abovitz performed at the Ringling College of Art, and all the FAKE and DECEPTIVE videos they posted and lied about on youtube, that tarnished Magic Leap's reputation? [...]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28850230
>That didn't stop them from making fraudulent concept video demos that they falsely claimed to be actual existing games that they were already playing around the office, and that they promised much much more than they could actually deliver.
>So if you can't reproduce the experience on a 2D screen, then fake it and lie, you're saying? That IS the whole point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838443
>Or are you referring to the way Magic Leap picked up and ripped off so many other people's original designs and IP in their patent applications without giving the actual inventors credit, that tarnished Magic Leap's reputation? [...]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838737
>The point is that the name Magic Leap IS extremely and deeply tarnished, in so many ways, and Magic Leap pretending it's not just makes them look more laughably delusional than they already are (which is extremely), just like Trump still believing that he won the election. [...]
But Apple has tons of money, so they can learn from the devices in market now and decide how best to target Gen 2.
Microsoft seems to be exiting AR other than the military contract. Meta continues spending billions on their research project that might someday be a product, though they also continue iterating on their VR products.
We're still waiting for the tech to get cheap enough, small enough, and with a good enough ecosystem people will want to put up with it.
Meanwhile, Apple put out a tech demo to test the market. And probably to light a fire under the VP in charge of the program.