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Magic Leap raising up to $1B in new round

76 点作者 Stanleyc23超过 7 年前

15 条评论

ChuckMcM超过 7 年前
I&#x27;m guessing they will announce an immersive universe with a lot of pop references to the &#x27;80s where you can transact business, go to school, or just adventure :-).<p>More seriously, the last time a company spent this much money in a vacuum it did not turn out well for them. I&#x27;d love to believe they have an idea worth billions but struggle to come up with any plausible way to imagine such a value without major dependencies on a much bigger ecosystem. (see Occulus Rift and the computer gaming industry as an example of inter dependence issues)
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sxates超过 7 年前
You guys remember when Color raised $50m with no product and the valley went ape and started screaming bubble?<p>Talk about quaint compared to today.<p>ML has a very serious risk of spending hundreds of millions of dollars over a decade with no customer input building something that will land like Google Glass or a Segway. Then what? Someone like Google has other products and can retreat and regroup, but ML will lose whatever credibility they had and not be likely to recover. It could be very ugly.
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deft超过 7 年前
How is this possible? Unless they invented literal world changing technology (they haven&#x27;t) how are they able to do this? No product, no public demos, what exactly have they done?
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strangeloops85超过 7 年前
I cannot think of a similar trajectory for a company that is today a large platform. The big companies of our, and previous, eras began with small products, targeting markets and grew organically and gradually. Stealth had a purpose, but there was a technology serving a market at a relatively early point. Even in semiconductors. There&#x27;s no precedent for this degree of fundraising, lack of product release and opacity. I can&#x27;t think of reasons that this is justified when product&#x2F;market fit is so unproven.<p>Even if the experience is fantastic, the product flawless, the content engaging -- none of that means that there&#x27;ll be product&#x2F;market fit. Iterations will likely be needed. I&#x27;ll be delighted if it&#x27;s a big success, and hey it&#x27;s not my money. But, the systemic signaling (and actual) risk posed by a potential Magic Leap failure on the larger AR&#x2F;VR community is being sorely underestimated by everyone. And that is worrisome.
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jdavis703超过 7 年前
Based on the job listings they&#x27;ve had for the past few months I think they&#x27;re actually building a computing platform. I expect the first iteration to not be as visually immersive as their old homepage lead people to believe (think more like a traditional heads up display, less like a Black Mirror-style AR device), but none-the-less they have the ability to reimagine and transform computing in the way that the original iPhone did. That said there&#x27;s a large risk they&#x27;re lost in the dustbin of technology if they can&#x27;t convince consumers to wear a computer on their face. But potentially getting in on the next iPhone for only a billion dollars is a bet a lot are willing to make.
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mfrisbie超过 7 年前
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codeulike超过 7 年前
I hear they&#x27;ve found a way to make dollar signs appear in people&#x27;s eyes, like in cartoons.
kelvin0超过 7 年前
Well, if a company can sell an explosive detector to states and make a ton of money out of a tin can with an antenna attached, why not Magic Leap? Always remember the power of the :ADE651<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ADE_651" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ADE_651</a>
dguaraglia超过 7 年前
For reference, by the time Uber had raised this kind of money, they already had &gt;$1bn in revenue. How they can keep this thing going on is beyond my comprehension.<p>Either the technology is <i>so</i> mind-blowing that we&#x27;ll all be compelled to use it the moment we see it (in a year? two? a decade? what kind of runway are they building with this money?), or this will be the next Theranos.
coldcode超过 7 年前
Why? A company with no products that no one has really seen building something people are living without, sure its worth another Billion. Maybe we will all die in a nuclear holocaust and then it won&#x27;t matter. In meantime you can have nice parties.
shafyy超过 7 年前
Wow, I didn&#x27;t know that the company was launched in 2010. 7 years and not a public product? I don&#x27;t know man. I really hope that it&#x27;s not just vaporware, would be awesome if they could make something cool.
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beambot超过 7 年前
The cynical part of me: it&#x27;s just vaporware... until it isn&#x27;t.
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niyogi超过 7 年前
I don&#x27;t get it.
trhway超过 7 年前
&gt;This substantial amount of funding has placed Magic Leap firmly in the public eye<p>pun intended?
thebiglebrewski超过 7 年前
Lmfao I just don&#x27;t understand it. Who is going to buy into this with, as another commenter said, &quot;No product, no public demos, what exactly have they done?&quot; Especially after Juicero and everything else that&#x27;s been dumb lately?
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