What happened to magic leap?
Unlike a sibling comment, I don't think it's a "borderline scam", but I do think the company is struggling to live up to their own hype. When it was released, it had a lot of problems. The latest OS update is much better. I first tried it around OS v0.17 and it was pretty shaky and crashed a lot. By v0.20, it was running much better, but that was like 6 months later. I think they felt pressured to release earlier than they should have.
I've been pretty busy at work with a mobile VR project, so haven't touched the Magic Leap in a while. Current OS version is 0.22. Curious to see how it's doing.
[0] I keep a full list of my hardware here: https://seanmcbeth.com/vr.html Ask me anything about anything on the list. The notes on the page are a little outdated, as I have now used all of the hardware I have (and have it all readily accessible on a shelf at work). Maybe I'll update the notes tomorrow.
Magic Leap has always raised a swath of significant red flags, but for me, one of those red flags is that the company is based in Florida. As Roger Stone famously said, "Florida is a sunny place for shady people". I'm pretty skeptical of any company or person based there that makes transformative claims.
I would love to be downvoted and proven wrong about this in comments below, so if you have good counter-examples, please share.
- the whole thing was overblown, overhyped, etc.
- tech nowhere near ready at the level of expectation they built. Basically was more limited than Hololens (narrow field of view) but some cool effects. Resolution/performance was apparently not good to see.
- Software wasn't much evolved either.
The entire thing was a borderline scam, despite big names etc. who apparently got hyped like the rest of us.
Agreed, AR is big. Very big. This is going to be a fascinating century if we keep the current pace of acceleration.
AR is about creating a purely individual visual experience. Much more the domain of art than business.
What will be world changing about it?