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Snorelab
Up and Coming
November 13, 2015
Question

Magic Leap

I just went to the Magic Leap website for the first time in many months...

WHAT THE HELL?!?

How is having a hoax video on your home page a good thing for your billion dollar company?

    7 replies

    Ashles
    Inspiring
    November 16, 2015
    The guys running Magic Leap are coming across as kind of jerks - doing stupid acts wasting everyone's time at a TedTalk, creating a video 'demo' that's clearly just a fake, implying that all VR devices (other than theirs) might cause Brain Damage, and then pulling out of talks at short notice.

    Rony Abrovitz is starting to come across a bit like a rather arrogant fantasist who has half a product and tried to sell it to people before it was anywhere near ready.
    Magic Leap at the moment is entirely a company that produces fake videos.

    It's odd - Google is normally really good as coming across as an open and generally decent company (regardless of what the reality actually is) - this whole Magic Leap fiasco seems very unlike them.
    If they don't start showing some form of real demo and hardware in some sort of public environment soon, their investment and backing may start to wane.
    "Into every life a little fantasy must fall..."
    richhard1
    Up and Coming
    November 17, 2015
    You guys think Magic Leap is a Hoax?
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    Ashles
    Inspiring
    November 18, 2015
    "richhard1" wrote:
    You guys think Magic Leap is a Hoax?

    Not a hoax - just significantly less developed than they have implied.
    "Into every life a little fantasy must fall..."
    SnorelabAuthor
    Up and Coming
    November 18, 2015
    Richard,

    I was referring specifically to the whale video. Magic Leap filmed a hoax video and put it on their font page. My question is why would they do this?

    Where is the disclaimer? Where is the cut to the school kid taking off a pair of glasses? Show the video to people and you may get the same reaction I did. They think that Magic Leap can accomplish exactly what the video shows: glasses-free, gymnasium-scale, photo-real holographic video.
    VizionVR
    Up and Coming
    November 19, 2015
    Magic. Leap.
    The name alone speaks volumes about the situation. Personally, I've never trusted a product with the word "magic" in the name. "Leap" denotes the leap of faith that some are taking to support this product.
    As a fan of Weta and a collector of Dr. Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators, the original Magic Leap "demo" video got my hopes up...for about a day. Then reality set in.

    There's talk of progress from third party onlookers so it's not a hoax by any means, just an exaggerated truthism.
    Not a Rift fanboi. Not a Vive fanboi. I'm a VR fanboi. Get it straight.
    SnorelabAuthor
    Up and Coming
    November 19, 2015
    And now this...

    http://uploadvr.com/magic-leap-jeff-gattis-htc-exclusive/

    Looks the the head of HTC Vive marketing just jumped ship for Magic Leap.
    g4c
    Up and Coming
    November 26, 2015
    "Snorelab" wrote:
    ...They think that Magic Leap can accomplish exactly what the video shows: glasses-free, gymnasium-scale, photo-real holographic video.


    They must be young (or maybe dumb) :lol:
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