Back in olden times (by which I mean 2015), this video sure excited everyone in AR and VR:
Three years, 2.3 billion dollars in funding, major distribution partnerships with AT&T and other big companies later, here's what Magic Leap just showed in advance of its announced launch this year:
(Advance to 11:30 for the actual product demo)
Maybe it's just me, but I'm somewhat detecting a fairly large gap between hype and reality? Which might not be fair to point out. Except for, you know, that $2.3 billion dollars and that launch this year. I mean, it would really be unfair to bring up that old whale in the gym video. To actually be fair, I'll say the AR technology seems to be a bit better than what we might get playing Pokémon GO, and Pokémon GO is still massive. So maybe there's still hope?
What the hell, here's the whale video:
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