What we just learned about the Magic Leap One's hardware

This definitely feels a lot like the people selling perpetual motion or energy devices. A CEO&#x2F;Entrepreneur who uses non-standard terminology, speaks like Deepak Chopra with fanciful but fictitious sounding explanations, a kind of word salad designed to impress.<p>I had high hopes for Magic Leap when it was first announced. I though this was going to be a device that had opaque overlay LCD or laser-retina projection so that it worked outside in daylight. I thought it would have a full on FOV. Now it seems really like a kind of Hololens 1.5.<p>At this point, I think we may have to wait for Apple to solve workable AR glasses.

Apple is going about AR right: incremental, shipping now, and already building a developer ecosystem. Smartphone based AR is mediocre at best but millions of users already can access it and provide feedback on it. Apple doesn’t have to convince users to spend $600 (at least) today on a new gadget that would still mostly be a novelty. They have bought themselves time to develop a great AR hardware product, and when they do release it, a whole ecosystem will already be in place<p>In fact, Apple may have already won this space unless they seriously drop the ball or someone releases something amazing. I mean the hololens is shipping today and is really cool but few people seem to care because it’s so expensive and it’s not clear why you need AR. To make AR more than a novelty requires developers. Developers will go where the users are because that’s where the money is, and users go where the apps are and where their friends go. Apple is using smartphone based AR to work around this catch 22

The book practically writes itself: &quot;Tragic Leap: An un-augmented look at the reality behind a secretive startup&quot;

They didn&#x27;t just &quot;not mention specs&quot;. They mentioned someone asked a hardware spec related question, and then said something along the lines of &quot;I&#x27;m not falling for that trick question.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s waaaay worse than just silence in my opinion.

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Clickbait you can skip without missing out on anything.<p>All they learned is irrelevant details, sadly they did NOT say anything about the color of the top or the exact haptic feel of the third knob from the right.<p>Nothing about the vapourware tech to learn.<p>Skip and keep watching from your safe distance.

This thing is going to be the Daikatana of AR. Tons of hype, many years late, finally delivered as garbage nowhere close to what was promised. It&#x27;s a shame they couldn&#x27;t ship before the VR hype flamed out, otherwise they might have at least made some of their money back from curious buyers, but now there&#x27;s going to be nothing.<p>Just get a HoloLens. That at least has shipping hardware and a real company behind it. Even if Magic Leap eventually does most of the same thing, it&#x27;s not going to be so much better that it was worth all the bluster.

Bets on whether or not that hockey puck just contains a Snapdragon 845 and some other COTS stuff? I&#x27;d wager significant money that it does.

Save you the click: Absolutely nothing.

It must be for real now. It has lots of blinky lights.

I don&#x27;t care how informative this article is, we should not be linking to pages that both prompt you for notification permission <i>AND</i> begin autoplaying a loud annoying video immediately upon page load.

tl;dr:<p>No specs, no demos, no video or images of what is seen through the glasses.<p>The only functionality demonstrated live was a green LED on the glasses.<p>Even in a world where the glasses work 100% as advertised, I’m still skeptical that goggle-vision AR will be a multi-billion dollar industry. Who wants to run around playing AR video games in their house or office? Who’d want to wear goggles and buckle a gaming PC to their belt just to check e-mail and watch YouTube? Where is the market for Magic Leap’s ideal, everything-works AR headset?<p>Some might say industry, architecture, or medicine, but that doesn’t appear to be their focus right now, and it’s hard for me to see those niche applications justifying their billions in investment so far.

There are a lot of big name companies betting a lot of money on the success of this device so I&#x27;m willing to give it a chance, but unless they start releasing some actual details about how well it works I remain sceptical.

This is a puff piece that doesn&#x27;t answer the fundamental question - have they solved the core problems with AR - field of view, and dark images?

It&#x27;s interesting seeing the tone in comment sections here change with time. Threads on Magic Leap used to have many defenders. Now, not so much.

can anyone think of any way to make money betting against magic leap?

Queue in a blog post by the guy who despises Magic Leap.

Theranos 2.0?

Karl Kuttag was right all along I guess. Good for him, but a bit of a bummer for the dream ML was trying to sell. Of course that dream turns have been made of lies and horseshit, so...