Tag: magic-leap
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Humane Leap of faith
John Gruber on Humane’s recent demo at TED: “So far, it feels like Humane’s entire premise is founded on that same mistake: building a new device intended to replace our phones, without that new device being able to do any of the dozens of things we love to do on our phones that require a
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Magic Leap of faith
I’ve covered some news regarding Magic Leap a few times here on the blog. You can skim the posts here. I’ll pull a quote from something I wrote in the summer of 2018: But I do think Magic Leap is playing a dangerous game with the hype machine. They should try to lower expectations before
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Palmer Lucky on Magic Leap
Palmer Lucky, co-founder of Oculus (no longer with the company): The product they put out is reasonably solid, but is nowhere close to what they had hyped up, and has several flaws that prevent it from becoming a broadly useful tool for development of AR applications. That is not good for the XR industry. It
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Magic Leap One Creator Edition
Adi Robertson for The Verge: But the Magic Leap One’s 50-degree diagonal field of view, while larger than the competing Microsoft HoloLens, is still extremely limited. And the image quality feels roughly on par with the two-year-old HoloLens. It’s generally good, but with some tracking and transparency issues. Given how much effort Magic Leap has
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Magic Leap hype
First line in this Wired piece about the Magic Leap One: In retrospect, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz realizes that all the hype was a big mistake. “I think we were arrogant,” he says. Umm, yeah. /via Daring Fireball.