Magic Leap Expands Shipments of Its AR Headset To 48 US States (techcrunch.com) 23
At the company's first developer conference, Magic Leap announced they are opening orders of the Magic Leap One Creator's Edition headset to the 48 contiguous states of the USA. If you're in Hawaii or Alaska, no dice. TechCrunch reports: Previously, you had to be in Chicago, LA, Miami, NYC, San Francisco or Seattle in order to get your hands on it. Also, if you had previously ordered the headset in one of those cities, someone would come to you, drop it off and get you set up personally. That service is expanding to 50 cities, but you also don't need to have someone set it up for you in order to buy one now. It's worth reiterating that this thing costs $2,295. The company is doing a financing plan with Affirm so that interested buyers can spread the cost of the device over 24 months.
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That book is all lies
Bummer (Score:2)
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Not anymore. FTFA:
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Color me unimpressed.
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Well it's fucking Developer's kit, isn't it? It's not like it's actually meant for mass market.
Disclaimer, I live within 10 miles of MagicLeap HQ. I don't work there, and I don't currently know anyone that does, but I'm told by someone who DOES know employees that there are multiple other product lines ready to go.
The current device exists so that people can create content that future devices will give access to.
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Is it? If you search for "magic leap creator edition," you'll find a web page of their's. It says "So if you're a developer, creator or explorer, be one of the first to forge the Magicverse." Also, a bunch of meaningless drivel like "Use your Control as a paint brush, a conductorâ(TM)s baton or a weaponized ice cream cone that launches Rocky Road at 14 scoops per second."
It says nothing about any sort of development kit, which would presumably inclu
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Go to http://creator.magicleap.com/ [magicleap.com]
You have to sign up for access, and the number of hoops you have to jump through to get into the site for the first time and see anything at all is kind of annoying... but once you're in, the site is quite good, and generally fluff/bullshit-free. It's almost like the development team hid it to keep it safe from the marketing team's interference. It's a total night/day difference from the "main" site... lots of real, meaty content. Anyone can register, and it's definitely w
Does anyone know how to "PM" someone here? (Score:1)
https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]
I wonder how to season shorts...
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At this point, the main point of something like the ML1 isn't just "rendering floating metadata bubbles next to interesting objects", it's "being able to visualize things in 3D, without many of the drawbacks that severely limit the amount of immersive virtual reality someone can take before they start getting queasy."
The fundamental problem with fully-immersive virtual reality is that current VR hardware just isn't fast or responsive enough to sail over the uncanny valley. If you're wearing a ML1 and render
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Companies routinely offer financing on far, far cheaper products. Heck, infomercials offered to finance your salad shooters and chia pets into 4 easy payments of $19.95.
There's a cheap alternative to get your feet wet (Score:2)
If you want to try out a fun product that will whet your appetite for a Magic Leap ML1 or Hololens, check out Aryzon's headset (http://aryzon.com). It's basically the augmented-reality evolution of Google Cardboard -- you mount your phone in it, the display's light bounces from a mirror onto reflective window tinting, and you see a 3D hologram superimposed on whatever is in the room in front of you.
Aryzon's lead (only?) developer has done a fantastic job of writing documentation, creating demo apps, and mak