Magic Leap Creator Edition Priced Like High-End Tablet, Smartphone

[kcarbotte]

Rony Abovitz, founder and CEO of Magic Leap, revealed that the Magic Leap Creator Edition headset would carry a premium, pro-sumer price point. The executive also revealed that it would be likely that Magic Leap would always be in the price range.

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[alextheblue]

"...people who want to get an early taste of what the future looks like."

Riding on the coattails of existing hardware like HoloLens, of course.

 

[berezini.2013]

i thought hololens thing was being put on hold by microsoft?

 

[bit_user]

"...people who want to get an early taste of what the future looks like."

Riding on the coattails of existing hardware like HoloLens, of course.

This is what hololens wants to be. At least the display technology, that is. Hololens has a fairly narrow range of distances it can support, since its image plane is at a fixed focal distance.

One reason Magic Leap got delayed for so long is that it needs a beefy GPU to do the lightfield rendering. MS couldn't have introduced hololens when it did (or else it'd have been even more expensive and used a saddlepack or VR backpack), if it used a lightfield display.

It will be interesting to see what GPU Magic Leap finally went with. I wonder if it could possibly be Nvidia's Xavier.