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Moe_Capp t1_j249gsq wrote

Reply to comment by Mad_currawong in Saudi Arabia Takes Control of AR Pioneer Magic Leap in $450 Million Deal (Report) by LegitVirusSN

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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