[kanobo]

On a tangential thought, it's interesting to me that a company (magicleap) that has raised several billion dollars generates so little value compared to other companies its size that this is the most notable output from them in a year and I thought it was a phd project until I looked at the project owner. Anyways, it's a very interesting project and thanks for sharing.

[rayuela]

Yeah I have to agree. If this were a PhD thesis it would certainly deserve some praise, but given that this is the most exciting thing to come out of magic leap in years just barely puts them on par with SOTA...well I would be pretty pissed if I was an investor in them.

[Theodores]

It is easy to have a billion dollar company if you have borrowed two billion. And haven't spent all the loot on salaries.

The company has a cool name and the product area is divisive. Some say it is vapourware and nobody wants Oculus Rift style VR. Others are gung-ho. It's like Bitcoin all over again.

Although this tech is being done with AI, it was being done with non-AI approach two decades ago for movies/TV. But it wasn't as if people ported this tech to their smart phones from the SGI desktop monsters of yesteryear.