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I have to say, I've been reading these comments who love or hate ML, treating them as just another internet argument

As someone who was following the public hype but never actually saw what they released. This is absolutely completely terrible. The promises they made when they raised half a billion dollars 7 years ago as a stealth company backed by tech geniuses.

If this is what they have today, what were they showing investors 7 years ago? and why did investors think this is going to revolutionize the world?

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I saw it during an interview at Ft Lauderdale. I was interviewing for the optics metrology engineer position. It was as mind blowing as the op is stating. Absolutely stunning. This was 5 years ago. Signed a bunch of NDA papers so shouldn’t talk too much about it.

Allow us who haven't experienced it to highly doubt this. At the very best it looks like nifty tech that would be fun to play around with for a couple of hours until the novelty wears off, no more than that.

Edit: I removed my comments due to obvious reasons.

Have you considered that the demo may have been faked (for example maybe they preprogrammed it with room geometry that was acquired some other way)?

From what I understand - the demo was using a completely different set of technology from that which eventually came out.

It had been proposed that this may be one way some of this tech gets adopted- purpose built and maintained rooms just for AR / VR / XR.

Its not a baf ifea if you have the right tradeoffs. The tech to make that worth it is going to be at least a decade away IMO.

I tried one out maybe 3 years ago. It seemed clunky and awkward to me, and the projected scene glitched out a lot.

I tried my friend's oculus rift around the same time, and it felt immersive and fun.

Just reserve judgement until you experience it yourself. You can't reproduce the experience on a 2D screen. That's the whole point.

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". If all you can show is 20 year old looking graphics that only somewhat match the scene they are in (while moving at a glacial pace), I am going to bet that the "experience" is way over hyped as well.

That didn't stop them from making fraudulent concept video demos that they falsely claimed to be actual existing games that they were already playing around the office, and that they promised much much more than they could actually deliver.

So if you can't reproduce the experience on a 2D screen, then fake it and lie, you're saying? That IS the whole point.

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