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"Magic Leap says they have “built a whole new operating system” called LuminOS to take advantage of their “spatial computing system“. It is actually just Android with custom stuff on top, the same approach most people take when they want to claim they have built a whole operating system... I hope Magic Leap does cool stuff in the future, but the current UI is basically an Android Wear watch menu that floats in front of you."

http://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/




This is a great read. Thanks for posting!my favorite quote, "The ML1 is a not a “lightfield projector” or display by any broadly accepted definition, and as a Bi-Focal Display, only solves vergence-accommodation conflict in contrived demos that put all UI and environmental elements at one of two focus planes. Mismatch occurs at all other depths. In much the same way, a broken clock displays the correct time twice a day."


Wait, they used the magnet-based tracking system?? Those DO NOT WORK, and has been proved over and over again - having a tube-light in the same room will make them not work.




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