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Well, it's a bit disappointing that this patent explains more of a high-end Hololens than the fiber-scan displays they were pitching in 2015.

Excited to see how raising almost $2 billion pre-revenue turns out.

All comments I read in here paint a negative picture of Magic Leap which to me creates a desire to bet against the herds.

A handful of comments or the public at large, complete with billions in investor money. You may not have correctly identified the herd.

The "public at large" are definitely betting that Magic Leap are another Theranos and will self-implode shortly, or just be vaporware forever.

I haven’t seen that. Even here there are plenty of credulous people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16380767

Even in your link there are multiple people calling it the next theranos or vaporware. Just because there happen to be some level-headed people here doesn't exclude that the majority of news pumped out is dubious about Magic Leap's ability to accomplish anything. Here's the latest story today: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/02/magic_leap_sues_sec...

Meanwhile...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17010546/magic-leap-ceo-r...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/13/17010360/magic-leap-rony-...

Note the many defenders here: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicleap/comments/5har86/magic_lea...

More Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/13/17009312/magic-leap-is-pa...

You said you’ve never seen anyone call them the next Theranos or vaporware. You then proceed to link me to a bunch of neutral stories in which invariably someone does call them that and even after I gave you links supporting that notion. And here’s the thing, the skeptics have been forced to change their tune for the most part ever since the product was revealed in December. Of course no one will ever acknowledge that. No no, they always thought it was real... smh.

Lol yeah me too but in the end I don't care either way as I have nothing invested in it.

There's a lot of hate against Magic Leap, but an upgraded Hololens with 6DoF controllers sounds good to me!

A fool and their money are soon parted

The real magical leap is how you take in 2B and produce nothing but a few patents.

The market rewards innovation, among a few other things.

I don't think history actually shows this. Of course "innovation" is such a meaningless term that it's probably true by way of encompassing too broad of a definition.

I get a "ERR_SSL_UNRECOGNIZED_NAME_ALERT" error from this site. I have absolutely no idea what that means.

SSL has progressed to a point where I see it like this too https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/844269572576370688

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