[dartos]

To quibble a bit, I don’t think that magic leap one released as complete products.

Magic leap had like a 30 degree FOV and no software. It was a dev kit, literally. The consumer version was never released IIRC

Also, I don’t think you argued against the main thesis which is something like “startup land is too good at the first 80% of a product, but not the latter 20%”

That rings true for me. Our industry is not known for robustness and quality. There is robust and high quality software out there, but most of it is not.

[PaulHoule]

Magic leap is an atypical example. It wasn't a "lean startup", it spent billions of dollars and many years developing an El Dorado [1] [2] [3] technology. They would have liked to deliver the system they had promised but investors were right to pressure them to deliver something -- even a broadly available dev kit is an important milestone for a technology like that.

[1] For example, the liquid metal fast breeder reaxctor https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...

[2] https://kguttag.com/ tells you just how hard it is

[3] Apple Vision Pro is a refined if overly expensive product that takes a different approach to the same end and consumers were indifferent

[cma]

> Magic leap had like a 30 degree FOV

So they released both a vertical slice and a horizontal slice then.