Magic Leap now shipping! (Sort of.)

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In case you have been living under a rock today, Magic Leap One (Creator Edition) is now shipping for $2,295.

It’s only available in select cities though. :frowning: Still, hopefully they’ll open that up soon.

Perhaps it’s time to add a Magic Leap sub-forum here? ML’s own forums are awful, so I’d love to have a place here to discuss development for this interesting new platform.

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Magic leap subforum is here.

https://forum.unity.com/forums/magic-leap.148/

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I have a hard time justifying all these AR ‘platforms’. Whats the incentive to adopt?

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Oops. Egg on my face. Thanks for the pointer!

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HoloLens is the only other AR platform. (Don’t talk to me about your cell phone — that’s just a silly stunt used to prove out some of the technology that will go into actual AR.) There is essentially no competition:

  • Viewer: exact same technology as MirageAR, but not actually in production
  • Aryzon AR Cardboard: cheap (literally cardboard) construction, and ARKit/ARCore tracking (i.e. laggy and imprecise)
  • Mira Prism: gave up on the consumer market completely; also uses ARKit/ARCore tracking
  • Ghost AR viewer: not in production; has raised less than $7k of its $80k goal on Indiegogo; uses ARKit/ARCore.
  • Lenovo Mirage (aka Star Wars Jedi Challenge): claims they’re working on an SDK, but no sign of one yet.

As for why to adopt: because it’s awesome! :smile: I got to use a borrowed HoloLens for only a couple of days, but it was fairly life-changing (sadly, my life changed back as I had to return it to its owner). Obviously the price needs to come down and the FOV needs to come up, but I am 100% convinced that these magic glasses are the future of computing, and in 10 years will be as ubiquitous as cell phones are today.

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