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Mad_currawong t1_j23qjqy wrote

My friend worked on ML in dev team… he says it was all smoke and mirrors

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Dickenshmirst t1_j23w945 wrote

Not surprised at all. Been folllowing them for years and they seemed really shady with their releases. Absurd how much money they funneled without a mainstream product.

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_j241sjr wrote

One rule I follow with companies (and government organizations) is that they like to brag, show off, advertise their successes. In most situations, if they had something to brag about (especially with releasing/advertising products and such), they do. I tend to look for what's missing in that stuff, as it an sometimes give a better indication of what's going on than what little information companies can give out.

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Dickenshmirst t1_j24bk2v wrote

That is absolutely true. The crazy thing is that they’ve raised millions from investors including the likes of Google, for vaporware. Seems like a money laundering scheme with A LOT of extra steps lol

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Moe_Capp t1_j249gsq wrote

The very first released Magic Leap One device in 2018 proved beyond a shadow of a doubt they really had no particular edge with their supposedly special patented display technology. They did a pretty good job with everything else but the most important part. It doesn't matter how great the display looks if it has the FOV of a postage stamp.

Most of AR is long figured out by now except for two important things. Practical wide-enough FOV displays, and mobile micro power supplies. At the rate its going it could be another decade or more before a viable consumer product.

Nobody has solved the AR display problem yet despite the largest tech companies pouring billions of dollars into research over the last decade. Every year even Apple keeps coming up with new delays for its own take on smart glasses. They also seem to have everything figured out except for the most important part.

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regularITdude t1_j271wig wrote

the newly released model has improved FOV up to 70 degrees

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Moe_Capp t1_j2984mj wrote

Well that's an improvement at least, more realistic for some enterprise applications.

If the company hangs in there, then by the time there's viable and affordable hardware that can be mass produced, they could be in a strong position, with a mature software library and tracking systems.

Though that could be three more years or it could be ten more.

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bicameral_mind t1_j25efb5 wrote

Pass through like the Quest Pro has is really the only way forward for AR with current tech. Unfortunately pass through has many draw backs that kind of undermine the potential of the technology in the first place. Resolution limitations on display and cameras, lighting fluctuations due to camera exposures, lack of true color in real spaces, etc. Software can theoretically mitigate some of this but then you get to the compute problem and it's very taxing.

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MojaMonkey t1_j288qlt wrote

The quest pro is not the only way forward for AR. Check out the nreal air. I literally use it daily for hands free information connected by a cable to my smartphone.

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bastardoperator t1_j250em0 wrote

I worked with a devops engineer for CI related purposes, he claimed it was all bullshit too, lol.

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yaosio t1_j27pb0i wrote

I forgot Magic Leap existed. I remember all the hype, the videos, and then absolutely nothing.

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