chaos Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) It's 'early days' yet and nothing is a known at his point. It does seem to put the tech sector on the head as far as augmented/virtual reality goes... Introducing 'Magic Leap'. This company has been operating under the radar and is close to revealing their gadget. Google is heavily invested (500mil) and they just ended a second round of capital building adding close to another 500mil from tech-heavies. Supposedly this is beyond anything anyone has ever seen. It sounds like snake-oil to me but Graeme Devine (ex DOOM fame) has joined the company including many other leading tech- people. Time to ditch DK2? :D Edited October 21, 2014 by chaos "It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage..."
Shaman Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 ah all this hype marketing around these devices, lol 51PVO Founding member (DEC2007-) 100KIAP Founding member (DEC2018-) :: Shaman aka [100☭] Shamansky tail# 44 or 444 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 100KIAP Regiment Early Warning & Control officer
theGozr Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 I wan the device that require less cpu cycles as possible. Fly it like you stole it..
metalnwood Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Looks to me like different things for different purposes. I have been doing a good amount of racing in AC as well as the odd fly in DCS with the DK2. The Magic leap is an augmented reality device that could never give the same experience as a VR headset for these applications. Lots of stuff augmented reality would be good for but also applications that VR is best suited for. No one device will be the best for both purposes.
cichlidfan Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 It sounds, to me, like it is not something aimed at the home pc at all. Magic Leap, then, is combining that inherent visual ability with mobile computing – giving you visual output equivalent to when you step outside into the world, but powered by the mobile tech you carry around. Nor will this be something that involves a huge head-mounted display, Oculus Rift-style, Abovitz is keen to note – he characterized it as a “lightweight wearable” hardware solution, though he wouldn’t go into further detail about what exactly that meant. ... Abovitz says that contrary to some speculation, however, this isn’t just about adding a feature to Google Glass – in fact, he says they’re completely separate and unrelated projects, and will remain so, though he did say Magic Leap springs from a belief that we spend too much time looking at our phones and not enough looking at the world, which is similar to Sergey Brin’s stated motivation in creating Glass. http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/magic-leap-tech/ ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
EddieJames Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 All that is good and fine. But for me, there is no disputing that Oculus DK2 with DCS in a Mustang or FW 190 is amazing. Asus Rampage V X99 | Win 7 x64 | i7 5930 @ 3.5 GHz | 32GB RAM | Nvidia GTX780ti | Logitech G940 | Oculus Rift DK2
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