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"Magic Leap filed late Thursday in federal court after the two workers, Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler, sued the company for wrongful termination earlier this week."

Both of these guys are listed as Vice President's - Kaehler as VP Special Projects - and Bradski as VP of Advanced technology, that's no small deal.

More info of the allegations in a NY Times article (1)

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/27/business/ap-us-ar...

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This is particularly interesting since Gary Bradski is also a Co-Founder of Industrial Perception Inc., a robotics company that Google acquired in 2013.

Reportedly Bradski walked away from Google right after the deal to join early Magic Leap, leaving lots of cash on the table and Google stock unvested.

Bradski is also the creator of OpenCV, an industry standard computer vision library.

Adrian Kaehler is also a major contributor to OpenCV.

That's enough for me to side with these two guys. I think Magic Leap is not that magical after all.

He wrote the Learning OpenCV book but I'm not sure it's accurate to say he created openCV... It was created by intel internally (by a ton of folks like Vadim Pisarevsky) and later open sourced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV

No, it is accurate. He was at Intel when it was created, and meeting notes suggest that he had been leading the project.

https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/wiki/Meeting_notes

Leading a project inside a company != creating the thing.

Sure it is! What else would it be? It was conceived by immaculate conception?

thanks! -- I didn't know the history. these notes are from 2008 (long after opencv was open sourced) but it's clear from his linkedin page that he was a part of the founding team at intel.

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