Comment by radicaldreamer

2 days ago

There was a great documentary on Magic Leap! https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com

That is a great documentary, but it's about General Magic, not Magic Leap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap

  • Here's the real story behind "Magic Creep":

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725347

    • Oh my gosh, Don, you are giving me nightmares.

      But what do you mean about the whale? I know they hypnotized the kids with some Magic, but the whale really did Leap out of the gym floor. That's where they got the company name! I saw it with my own eyes, in that YouTube video.

      And don't expect me to believe that Rony Abovitz is not a real astronaut, and those were not real apes, and that was not a real space fudge monolith. I can taste right now, in my virtual mind!

      About the shower glass guy... I knew him when he was a camera salesman at LZ Premiums in San Jose. I used to go there when I lived nearby, just to eye the merchandise and compare prices.

      Eventually I bought something there - a huge Manfrotto tripod with a fluid head. I can still see the smile on Robert's face when he brought it out: "this guy finally bought something!"

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    • Don't hold back. Tell people how you really feel :)

      Few seem to have put it so succinctly. Although your text recovers completely after being fully compressed to "from day one" ;)

      Magic Leap gave Nova a bad name and Ft. Lauderdale a worse name but visitors should know better than to be sold their own dream.

      Exactly the thing I was advising yachtsmen against when I was a teenager.

      Back in the Everglades there never were that many legitimate sources of income so different cultures had long developed different ways to survive in that type of climate :\

      Small-town resort coup on SV that one.

Yep. I can be seen briefly in one scene, listening intently in the background while Marc Porat waxes poetic.