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They keep talking about a sunglasses size product. Is even such a thing possible? I understand they are using vectored graphics, and I can't imagine you could create an immersive world within a sunglasses sized computational unit, unless they have massive compression and crazy hardware. But can you pass that data wirelessly? Can BlueTooth 5 handle the necessary traffic?

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Last report I read mentioned two waist-mounted units for computing and battery that would be linked up to the sunglass-sized product (presumably by wires).

I'm sure they have made some good technical advances. But the fact that it's taken this long to productize it to something people can try is.. not promising.

Given their burn rate they really need the first product to have substantial market traction to sustain such valuations and keep moving. That's challenging to say the least..

More details here: https://gpuofthebrain.com/blog/2016/7/22/how-magic-leap-will...

It's worth noting that this is some guys educated speculation on the matter. Nobody knows how this will actually work without signing an NDA at this time.

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