On: Magic Leap One now available for $2295

[gowld]

It's new tech. It's not for you to keep in your closet. It's for hotels and arcades and parties and other such rental use cases.

[scosman → gowld]

It's called the "creator edition". I'd dare to say this release is targeted at devs/creators.

[killerpopiller → gowld]

I remain sceptical and feel reminded on the 3D-Displays in the late 90ies from 4D-Vision, later x3d and then opticality. 3D without glasses but no content (except some plugins for 3D-SW) to drive adoption.

[ghaff → gowld]

I'd be skeptical you get sufficient volume with just specialty uses.

[dymk → ghaff]

Magic Leap only needs to sell (roughly) 17% as many Ones as Oculus Rifts, to have equivalent sales ($2.3k vs $400 device).

And while their current hardware is expensive, I would bet that their longterm plan isn't to sell devices that cost more than $2000.

[albinofrenchy → dymk]

Equivalent sales is a nonsensical metric between the two. I doubt their profit margin is 5x per device compared to the rift.