Magic Leap, I’ll tell you, is just fantastic. I haven’t tried Microsoft’s Hololens yet, but I think such startups will only grow over time.
This is nothing like Google Glass in any aspect, not even close. Beyond the obvious entertainment applications, there’s a huge potential for business use; You can buy this device for production along with the software, and the cost of the helmet being around two thousand bucks is simply nothing compared to the benefits. Here’s how it looks: through the glasses, you see the room, in your hands is a “laser pointer” with which you can feel the objects around, both virtual and real. Virtual objects can be either semi-transparent or completely opaque. The physical world is digitized on the fly by the glasses, and they know there’s space between chairs and a table, and if a 3d object is supposed to be there, part of it will be obscured by the table. It works amazingly. Point the laser pointer at a chair – and it gets covered with a 3d mesh. Just the chair. Point it at a wall – the wall gets covered. All in real time, very fast. Virtual objects inserted into the world can move – for example, an engine can be disassembled by a single “click”, and reassembled. You can walk around it and examine the details, magnifying/minimizing them. But what’s really cool is that this object is visible to everyone who wears the glasses and uses the same software. Thus, several engineers can walk around the engine, discuss it, switch options for some components of the engine, start a virtual simulation, disassemble and reassemble it.
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