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Magic Leap Lightwear unveiled

kojack
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https://www.roadtovr.com/magic-leap-finally-unveils-first-ar-product-magic-leap-one-shipping-starts-...

The Lightwear from Magic Leap has been shown. Well, shown as renders composited on photos of a person, but I guess it's better than we've had so far. 🙂
It uses a belt mounted computer and has a 6dof controller.

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kevinw729
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https://www.magicleap.com/?utm_source=reveal&utm_medium=TW&utm_campaign=WTDO
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

Morgrum
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WAAAGH!

kevinw729
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The best part of this news, is that those held under the NDA can now speak freely, especially about their criticism of the software, and the failure of the system to achieve certain elements that had been promised from the start.

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"It's not easy being green" - but seriously, I have to agree with one comment that can now be shared about the FOV of the system - even though the HoloLens has an appalling FOV your real world vision is not blocked by the frames of a goggle-like device. All those that used the ML DK1 prototype stated that the restrictions on the FOV was a major issue - but had been gagged from saying this because of the draconian NDA (used more as a gag than a protective agreement).



Rolling Stone’s Brian Crecente did test out the headset before
the announcement and estimated “the viewing space is about the size of a
VHS tape held in front of you with your arms half extended.


But I will say that it is great the ML has finally revealed their position - this will allow us now to have a serious discussion about the platform with less hype from the executive team, and will make it easier to see its benefits against what the HoloLens II will be showing in February.

Edit - The competition 

https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
Oh and one last thing... with the need now for a hand controller, you wont be able to do this:


https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

Virtual Reality - a damn sight more real than the Hololens and Magic Leap.
Big PC, all the headsets, now using Quest 3

nosys70
Expert Protege
seems there is a hell lot of cameras on this device.
They should do a joint venture with CastAR (they still try selling some technology after bankruptcy)

Zenbane
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kojack said:

https://www.roadtovr.com/magic-leap-finally-unveils-first-ar-product-magic-leap-one-shipping-starts-...

The Lightwear from Magic Leap has been shown. Well, shown as renders composited on photos of a person, but I guess it's better than we've had so far. 🙂




I've seen this referred to as "Mixed Reality" in a few places. I know @snowdog loves that lol

In unrelated news, when I first saw this thread title I thought it read, "Magic Underwear unveiled"

kojack
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Zenbane said:


kojack said:

https://www.roadtovr.com/magic-leap-finally-unveils-first-ar-product-magic-leap-one-shipping-starts-...

The Lightwear from Magic Leap has been shown. Well, shown as renders composited on photos of a person, but I guess it's better than we've had so far. 🙂




I've seen this referred to as "Mixed Reality" in a few places. I know @snowdog loves that lol

In unrelated news, when I first saw this thread title I thought it read, "Magic Underwear unveiled"


There's a third meaning of mixed reality now, for fake advertising photos?

Hehe, even the final image on the magic leap website, the one with the parts sitting on a table, is made from 8 layers of images. Even the shadows are stored as separate images that are overlaid with html divs. Couldn't they just store it as one fake image instead of 8?
🙂

kevinw729 said:

Oh and one last thing... with the need now for a hand controller, you wont be able to do this:




If their sensor suite works the way they describe (3d mapping of the environment, like a hololens, and persistent object location), that should still be achievable-ish. It's just depth occlusion of a rendered model, it doesn't need to understand what hands are for that to work.


What I want to know is what are the 8 sensor-like parts on the front. Is it using structured IR (kinect 1), time of flight (kinect 2), stereo visible spectrum (zed camera) or something else?
How are they tracking the controller with 6dof when it's design makes it mostly occluded from the headset by the users hand?


From their website:
Our integrated processing unit delivers high-fidelity, gaming-quality
graphics, with the power and performance of a laptop computer. From
editing an elaborate 3D model to playing a first-person shooter in your
living room, Magic Leap One produces lightfield objects in intricate
detail, all on a highly responsive, self-contained wearable.

It's going to be interesting to see the specs for that.



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Syrellaris
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Would the design not change later on, considering they are marketing this currently as a "creator edition"? I would assume the consumer version for the avarage user would look differently.. and perhaps the final version of the creator one as well?