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Magic Leap Offers a First Look At Its Mixed Reality OS (cnet.com) 50

Posted by BeauHD from the not-so-secret-after-all dept.
TechCrunch's Lucas Matney describes the Lumin operating system that will power Magic Leap's upcoming Magic Leap One mixed reality headset: Alright, first, this is what the Magic Leap One home screen will apparently look like, it's worth noting that it appears that Magic Leap will have some of its own stock apps on the device, which was completely expected but they haven't discussed much about. Also worth noting is that Magic Leap's operating system by and large looks like most other operating systems, they seem to be well aware that flat interfaces are way easier to navigate so you're not going to be engaging with 3D assets just for the sake of doing so. The company seems to be distinguishing between two basic app types for developers: immersive apps and landscape apps. Landscape apps like what you see in the image above, appear to be Magic Leap's version of 2D where interfaces are mostly flat but have some depth and live inside a box called a prism that fits spatially into your environment. It seems that you'll be able to have several of these running simultaneously. Immersive apps, on the other hand, like the game title, Dr. Grordbort -- which Magic Leap has been teasing for years -- respond to the geometry of the space that you are in and is thus called an immersive app.

Moving beyond apps, the company also had a good deal to share about how you interact with what's happening in the headset. Magic Leap will have a companion smartphone app that you can type into, you can connect a bluetooth keyboard and there will also be an onscreen keyboard with dictation capabilities. One of the big highlights of Magic Leap tech is that you'll be able to share perspectives of these apps in a multi-player experience which we now know is called "casting," apps that utilize these feature will just have a button that you can press to share an experience with a contact.
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  • Excellent! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by AmazingRuss ( 555076 ) on Sunday July 29, 2018 @03:34PM (#57029596)

    A collection of beautiful, completely incomprehensible symbols!

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Mixed reality? Is that what you get when you combine MBA, marketing major and bullshit?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by DrXym ( 126579 )
      Not only incomprehensible, but straight in the middle of your field of view. After all, you didn't want to see where you were going did you?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Magic Leap has outplayed its role... even IF... and that is a BIG IF... they have something similar to HoloLens, then they will STILL fail... they have been a giant and sad waste of money it seems!

  • Dropping Little Hints (Score:5, Funny)

    by Friar_MJK ( 814134 ) on Sunday July 29, 2018 @03:47PM (#57029640)
    Well, given the time in one of their screenshots, now I know why it's been taking so long.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I had to google it [wikipedia.org] to get the joke. Posting so others don't have to.

      420, 4:20, or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is a code-term in cannabis culture that refers to the consumption of cannabis, especially smoking cannabis around the time 4:20 p.m. (or 16:20 in 24-hour notation) and smoking cannabis in celebration on the date April 20 (which is 4/20 in U.S. form).

  • This is the MagicLeap mixed reality game video that was released 3 years ago:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

  • monitor replacement? (Score:3)

    by bugi ( 8479 ) on Sunday July 29, 2018 @04:13PM (#57029704)
    I just want a way to replace one or more of my monitors with a heads up display. Will it do that?

  • Billions of dollars (Score:3, Insightful)

    by 110010001000 ( 697113 ) on Sunday July 29, 2018 @04:14PM (#57029706) Homepage Journal
    Billions of dollars spent to replicate what Microsoft already has, and no one really wants.

  • The time stamp of the home screen is 4:20.

    • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      That explains why they think this is going to be a hit.

  • These types of glasses have been out in one form or another for a while. I have a pair of Epson BT-300. They work fine, but its like epson gave up on any software updates for the last few years. You can root atleast and its useful around the house. Hell, I could even get some cardboard apps to work with it. But other than the novelty, the interface is horrid and would never use it as a main device.

    Granted its underpowered from what these guys want to do, but I just hope it will be open sourced enoug

  • If you looked at the pictures then you know that was the most realistic looking leather couch that you have ever seen! ;)

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I know you jest at the fact this is mixed reality. However, as an expert in the field these images just amaze me (with the laziness of their creators). Every indication is their display can only add light, but if you look at these images it's clear they are removing light in many of them. Their marketing department could make nice looking images that are actually possible with their hardware if they tried a little harder.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        Yep. The over-the-top marketing vids and images that we have been seeing will result in widespread disappointment with the real thing.

        It seems an oddly short-term approach for marketing to take. Unless the company's real plan was to make their fortune on the initial investment money, and then basically cut and run once the disappointing product is released (and does poorly on the market).

        • probably more of a large gamble, they had to impress early on to get the funding or they would have been dead before they had anything, Nothing wrong with having lofty ambitions. Where I think they have fallen over is in being so secretive about where the tech is up to which makes the difference between their marketing BS and reality such a stark contrast that it will be hard to overcome unless they can actually deliver on some of the initial hype. That secretive approach only works when what you are delive

  • uninspiring (Score:3)

    by gravewax ( 4772409 ) on Sunday July 29, 2018 @05:04PM (#57029818)
    Really seems wholly unimpressive, they could have saved billions and bought a HoloLens a few years ago and put together the same demos for a fraction of the cost.

  • "Alright, first, this is what the Magic Leap One home screen will apparently look like[...]"

    What, a screenshot of somebody's crappy Air B&B apartment?

  • Rumor has it... (Score:3)

    by gosand ( 234100 ) on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:06AM (#57032210)

    Rumor has it that it seamlessly integrates with The Phantom game console from Infinium Labs.

    I can't wait!

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