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Google Invests $500 Million Into Augmented Reality comapny "Magic leap"

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wohoo yeah

adblock + active noise cancellation but for people will be the killer app :P

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-magic-leap-cinematic-reality,27877.html

 

 

According to Recode’s sources, Google and a few others, including Marc Andreessen (who also invested in Oculus Rift in the early days), plan to invest $500 million into a start-up called “Magic Leap”, which is working on high-quality augmented reality.

According to Magic Leap, its technology isn’t well-described by the term “augmented reality”, because its technology offers much more realistic images than anything done before in the augmented reality space. This is why the company is calling it “cinematic reality”.

 

“Those are old terms — virtual reality, augmented reality. They have legacy behind them. They are associated with things that didn’t necessarily deliver on a promise or live up to expectations”, Rony Abovitz, Magic Leap’s CEO, told the South Florida Business Journal earlier this year. “We have the term ‘cinematic reality’ because we are disassociated with those things. … When you see this, you will see that this is computing for the next 30 or 40 years. To go farther and deeper than we’re going, you would be changing what it means to be human.”

 

 

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I hope Nerve Gear arrives soooon 

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"Cinematic reality"!?

Probably 24fps.

real life is too fast

i would love to see the world in 24 FPS xD

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500.000.000$ you say? Was it on sale? Only if I heard of it earlier...

I once had one of these, now I've got this.

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"Cinematic reality"!?

Probably 24fps.

 

 

real life is too fast

i would love to see the world in 24 FPS xD

Does it come with a free dedicated vomit bucket?

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I hope Nerve Gear arrives soooon 

I don't think society is ready for this yet.

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Does it come with a free dedicated vomit bucket?

Imagine how jarring it would be to have your vision ssuddenly be 24 Fps. Man , I would be puking all over thethloor with the lag between moving my head and a "frame playing"

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I don't think society is ready for this yet.

But some of us are....... :(

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Now this is something that I can get behind...

 

Too many practical applications... I'm all in if they make a driver's HUD that can give you info (distance, speed, direction, driver LOS, model) about surrounding vehicles...

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" To go farther and deeper than we’re going, you would be changing what it means to be human.”

Now, this is what I want ! To get blown away by something unknown. Sounds like some psychadelic trip :)

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How does one even invest 500 million dollars...

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How does one even invest 500 million dollars...

facebook bought whats app for $18 bn...
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