Comment by LegitShady
6 years ago
I thought the same thing. Even with VR people held cameras up to the displays, or projected what they saw onto a monitor. With magic leap it was sooo secret.
I assumed garbage. I'm still not sure what I would be supposed to do with them.
VR allowed the signal going to the headset to also be displayed onto a regular monitor since the signal was the full image. With AR, it's just overlaying something onto a lens you see through to be able to see the real world. That signal displayed onto a regular monitor would probably just show the object with a matte or essentially the object over a black background. Think of a transparent PNG but in motion. That's not very exciting.
It would at least show fidelity and detail. Instead they showed nothing so I assumed it was vaporware.
Apples and oranges I think. Take video signal reproduction as an example. You can have the same signal routed to different display devices, and they image produced will look better/worse than the original. Compare it on a 1980s 3 lens RGB projection screen compared to a CRT compared to a modern OLED screen. Compare Google Cardboard VR headsets with a cheap plastic lens compared to the higher quality headsets.
I'd love to know how close the shipping product is to what Kevin Kelly and other journalists were shown under NDA before release.
me too because people were raving about it. I wonder how much influence was peddled, given the billions invested.