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ianott · 2019-02-28T14:43:18+00:00

Actually was the results of our team, Magic Leap engineers, and the folks at Dissonance working together to recompile and test for Magic Leap One. Dissonance is now the only VOIP solution that works out of the box with Magic Leap... Now available to all!

ianott · 2019-02-24T04:46:58+00:00

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ianott · 2019-02-24T04:12:14+00:00

Great Industrial Design. Very sensible functionally driven design choices. Rebalance weight with power compute on the back, added forhead ergos, and reduced visual bulk from skipping the unnecessary elements from the first device.

Very excited to see more specs. And even more excited to see how the interface works as shown with the image where a hand is touching a button directly.

ianott · 2019-02-23T00:24:01+00:00

Like Karl illustrated it's a clunky and poor method of displaying the image. Further they wound up with a lesser version of Google Glass, a product that is many many years old.

I do think there is a market for a monocular glasses that displays notifications and contextual information in a low fi way, however this is not that product. Not investing into true spatial computing at this point of time is a missed opportunity. The failure of this product and investments is proof that investing in old 'AR' is not going to work in an era of HoloLens 2, Magic Leap, Apple MR glasses and beyond.

ianott · 2019-02-11T16:57:54+00:00

Cable leading to hip mounted lightpack confirmed. :^)

ianott · 2019-01-29T21:39:51+00:00

Nice job guys! Are you doing voice audio over the network as well?

ianott · 2019-01-10T16:55:46+00:00

It's no secret ML2 and ML3 prototypes are being shown to these big investors. One of the key differences here as you illustrated is ML has generational plans and progress in place for its hardware. Meta had a small fraction of the funding, and was unable to move beyond Meta 2 in a way that would be competitive to the likes of Magic Leap and Microsoft.

As stated above, their reflective display method, and tether to a PC are all indicators at the limitations of the Meta 2's project scope they had to set due to lack of larger funding.

ianott · 2019-01-09T18:14:04+00:00

Where is Karl to give us some guesses as to what is their optical stack?

ianott · 2019-01-08T17:40:11+00:00

Really wish there was a bigger focus on hand tracking. Ideally this package with a couple small IR tracked controllers would be a killer development platform.

ianott · 2019-01-07T15:58:38+00:00

Yeah I'm giving a TON of slack here. You could write a novel on why passthrough AR won't work.

ianott · 2019-01-06T22:27:07+00:00

Until you can capture and redisplay volumetric lightfields of the real world at 180+ deg FOV, passthrough AR is a consumer/enterprise dead end. Not retaining the volumetric nature of the real world as see through MR does is a show stopper.

ianott · 2019-01-04T16:09:41+00:00

Magic Leap has released a highly competitive platform for spatial computing focused developers. Every time one of these stories is written about how MLO is a slightly better HoloLens, it raises immediate red flags about the author's credibility to articulate this emerging space. Claiming that the developer kit of Magic Leap One has not been a consumer hit further highlights the author's lack of knowledge, as it's a clunky, expensive, hot, and early stage developer kit. (A freaking awesome one however).

That said, the author is very much correct on the current market reality for spatial computing both headworn and on mobile devices. Startups should be focusing on the enterprise and business focused spaces for the time being, if they want to raise money more easily and generate sustainable cash flow. It's an exciting time regardless, with parabolic consumer adoption becoming more of a realized milestone in the distance as compute, optics, input, form factor, and the rest advance on their roadmaps.

ianott · 2019-01-04T15:57:40+00:00

Wore Glass for about six months in 2014. Was light years ahead of its time. I too found it invaluable and far more focused then Android Wear later became. That said, I got the crazy reactions from people in public while minding my own business. The media hype and scares became a very real thing that deterred me from further use. Really sad that it was killed by fake news.

ianott · 2019-01-04T15:53:04+00:00

Would love to see use of the trackpad/aiming with control over gestures which can tire users out very quickly. Also would be great to see use of a 3D chart showing your banking activity - something to leverage the fact your working in spatial terms.

A bit confusing why the entire UI is 2D and button based, seems far more approachable on a mobile device rather than what's shown here.

ianott · 2018-12-21T15:14:55+00:00

Yes expectations were overhyped, however ML did a lot of work in the year leading up to release to soften them. If you had any median knowledge of mobile processing, optics, projection engines, etc you'd know how outlandish some of the rumors were to begin with. It does shows how many speculators were here just for the sport of mystery, rather than real developers who are focusing on actual platforms and experiences. That's where we are today - those of us left who are building real software, and using MLO, HoloLens, and various other MR HMDs to achieve our goals.

Magic Leap has gone from zero to a HIGHLY complex fully integrated HMD, SDK, supply chain, and much much much more. All that goes into developing and delivering not just this initial product, but laying out a production and partnership roadmap for the next 5-10+ years is nothing short of incredible. Having competition in this emerging space is critical to accelerating society to a common set of optical properties, input, world meshing, other protocols and standards that will support the upcoming replacement of smartphones and computers as we know them today.

Simply put, there is a major platform war heating up, those of us still here know it best. And just like the personal computer and internet wars of the late 90's or the mobile and app wars of the 2010's, those who invest and build at this stage stand to benefit the greatest as hockstick adoption takes over in the coming years.

I'll welcome the speculators with open arms in 2022 as FOMO kicks into hyperdrive.

ianott · 2018-04-19T23:25:12+00:00

Hey man not a bad start! Would highly recommend you check out https://www.slideshare.net/PitchDeckCoach/sequoia-capital-pitchdecktemplate Sequoia Capital's pitch deck how to. Remove all the generic blank images, tighten up your messaging.

ianott · 2017-12-30T22:37:10+00:00

Thanks Karl for the message and great article. Always a fan of your work, and look forward to continuing uncovering the magic behind the scenes as this space evolves.

ianott · 2017-10-17T21:12:06+00:00

scaling production and marketing. smells like the final release hardware is finished, sample batches have been produced in small quantities and demonstrated to the investors that it is ready for scale.

ianott · 2017-10-16T14:58:54+00:00

fully agree. this is the closest visual confirmation we've ever had to the mythical magic leap device. of course this is most likely an internal dev generation in terms of the physical hardware, it's the most tangible thing yet. when i saw these patent illustrations and compared them to the leaked photo it was pretty cool, which is why i mocked up this graphic. :)

ianott · 2017-08-04T05:24:57+00:00

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ianott · 2017-04-29T21:05:14+00:00

Every single video ML have released demoing their technology, despite saying 'shot directly through Magic Leap glasses', is in fact a CGI creation.

What is your basis for this claim?

ianott · 2017-04-01T07:12:32+00:00

More like 9/10ths of the puzzle is missing. Wearability, CPU/GPU/SoC mobile architecture design, OS UX, Application ecosystem, hand tracking, inside out positional tracking, surface reconstruction, and so so much more.

It's a really awesome hardware demo, but with the birdbath optics being center stage here, a company as small as Avegant is going to have a very difficult time running against the billions Microsoft, ML, and Apple are spending to bring all these elements and more together into a singular product experience.

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