And it's pretty impressive, especially after many months of speculation while it was under wraps:
Via Robert Scoble, who has some interesting background on this:
Ted Schilowitz, who is the futurist at 20th Century Fox (the movie people) spent two days with the founders in their Florida offices and told me it's remarkable (I got a little tour around his VR labs down in Los Angeles where he is building new entertainment for Oculus and Valve). His quote stuck with me: "It's Google's first trillion-dollar idea." Why? Well, this gives you a taste. When you look through a Magic Leap pair of glasses you see virtual items laid over the real world. Without seeing the edges of a screen, like you will with Microsoft's Hololens. Friends of mine who have seen both say Magic Leap blows away Hololens. Ted told me you don't see pixels, either. Says it's the first AR that he's seen that will be appropriate for entertainment. Google invested half a billion in this.
As a background reference, Scoble was once one of the most influential boosters of Second Life in the tech world, and also a huge booster of Google Glass. I definitely think AR has a better chance of going mass market, but the essential form factor of glasses is still the limiter. Nobody likes wearing glasses for extended periods, especially people who already have to wear glasses, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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OK - how are they getting the full FOV in the glasses? I am still not convinced.
Posted by: Jacki Morie | Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 07:47 AM
I dont think Magic Leap is glasses technology
Posted by: Metacam Oh | Friday, October 23, 2015 at 08:37 AM
Nevermind I dont know why I thought it wasn't
Posted by: Metacam Oh | Friday, October 23, 2015 at 08:38 AM