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by pipio21
2938 days ago
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Remember that even the first serious cinematographers, like Lumiere brothers considered cinema just a "toy" with no practical applications. From my perspective AR applications in the future will be huge in all areas as it means a new way to interface with 3d editing on real time. But having said that, I do not believe Magic Leap will be the one who bring this to the table. I see magic Leap as the Altavista or pets.com of the Internet, burning investor money like crazy and trowing things to the wall expecting something to stick. |
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I'm not sure it's fair to lump Altavista with pets.com.
The latter burned through something like 300 megabucks in just over 2 years.
The former was the first full-text search engine for the web and generated tens of megabucks of revenue, though they couldn't come up with a business model to keep it going (and eventualy lost out to Google on search quality [1], IIRC). I'm not sure we'll ever know how much it cost DEC to build and run it, but it seems credible that they at least came close to breaking even.
[1] Though I still miss their richer query language, incuding the NEAR keyword.