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What would you consider large Capital Expenditures to indicate a new product such as AR device?

Apple, Inc. Plans on Spending a Mind-Boggling $16 Billion in Capital Expenditures This Year

Oct 31, 2016

https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/10/31/apple-inc-plans-on-spending-a-mind-boggling-16-bil.aspx

You can download the companion app, then go to settings and setup guide. It can use the camera and a card to determine which of the two sizes you need.

LOL Irony, yes, yes. I got some stuff more than a year ago.HERE I'm wearing a magic leap shirt in this pic and in this one I have a canteen. I thought you knew ;)

Robo Recall on Oculus budgeted 1.5million tris per camera point of view (I don't know if that is including stereo or not).

https://www.slideshare.net/EpicGamesChina/unreal-open-day-2017-the-art-of-robo-recall

I don't accept that an average AR scene is only one model, but agree it wouldn't be the same kind of scene as VR.

This confused me too, When they first showed off the AR kit they mentioned the hardware that it uses, specifically the dual len's. But then they seemed to achieve the same experience with a single camera iPad!? Does this mean all iPhones and iPad's will support AR kit?

I imagine the iPhone 8 has some extra AR support, will it laser projection that the kinect and tango uses? I can see Apple making an iPhone 8 goggles accessory similar to GearVR but could give a mixed reality feel only through a high res OLED screen.

EDIT: Apples iOS 11 "ARKit, a new framework that brings augmented reality to hundreds of millions of iOS devices" This seems to run on any device that iOS 11 supports!

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Well, it matters for me, because I don’t plan on getting the new one because it’s just too expensive. I bought this because it was within my price range and I think it’ll be fun to use.

Not when I post to Reddit. However, I DO use it when I post from a post onto the sub. Which I do myself. It's Called IFTTT I only use it right now to post the posts I make to the sub, which are manually done by me to my Twitter account. (other peoples posts on the sub also wind up there.)

I've been trying to temper expectations about the next Hololens as I've been doing here for ML1. Problem is people expect the world from these companies and they rarely deliver that. First Hololens was great on an innovation level, but after the hype from the onstage demos faded we were left with the reality of the small FOV. Two years later and the content is still lacking. Now ML1 is coming out with some serious improvements, and we're a week away from seeing the content, but the FOV is still disappointing. Two or three months from now the next Hololens will be revealed and it's unlikely to be the hail Mary everyone is now putting pressure on them to deliver. It will likely be very similar to ML and I have some serious doubts about content. We saw similar hope from people when Microsoft's VR headsets were announced and it's been nothing but deflated expectations there as well. They pulled the usual MS tactics there of putting some promising hardware out there with little focus on first or third party content. I expect a similar outcome here. Apologies if I start sounding like a broken record here on this stuff, but I truly think it's going to be the content and software that sets these two companies apart, especially if MS continues to pursue enterprise.

It's funny to think that dial up and ADSL used to be enough for consuming content but websites were austere and it was 99% low def content for low def screens. You would just leave the computer running for a day or so and watch your video or open your file when it was done downloading.

Fiber optic broadband would have been a dream back then, but with today's 'streaming on demand' platforms like Netflix 4k, the 'massive' infrastructure advancements still only cover what we consider todays 'basic service'.

With ML, today's data plans would be sufficient if it was just a glasses based smartphone display but if you take the idea that more than sending and receiving text, sound and images, ML may be constructed with 5G networks and cloud based <em>computing</em> in mind, our current notions of data plans and how they are used might not be at all relevant in an AR based market.

TLDR: Things move on, today's service is enough for today's tech but the platforms of tomorrow will probably require massive overhauls just to meet basic functionality.

> I would be willing to guess that fiber projector uses less power than an entire LCD screen.

I think you are correct. In an old research article, Tom Furness states as much.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13116669_The_virtual_retinal_display_A_new_technology_for_virtual_reality_and_augmented_vision_in_medicine

• I also mistakenly didn't post the original link. <-- sorry guys here it is!

Milo was a tech demo and 90% of it hinged on the AI they were LionsHead was going to make to power Milo. That has nothing to do with the tracking and data provided by the Kinect.

People are still buying and using Kinect2 today for full-body tracking in VR. It is a successful product that does what it was designed to do. You can still buy them on Amazon.

ML, on the other hand, is a bad copy of the HoloLens based on unicorns and rainbows.

It leaves a sour taste in my mouth as well.. It may have happened too.. may have to read a book to find out. or maybe not... Ugh.. I mean it says.. it's detailed in that book. dunno though.

They sell those for car dashboard HUDs.

https://www.amazon.com/BESMOP-Bracket-Wireless-Navigation-Reflector/dp/B07BXS8F4S/

It is also pretty much how a Mira Prism works

These have been for sale on Amazon / Alibaba for a while It is basically a Mira Prism knock-off.

https://www.amazon.com/Headset-Augmented-Holographic-Projection-Controller/dp/B07BGZ8Z81/

thanks for that heads up. I tried Meta2 a year ago and tracking was so bad it was unusable to me, I cancelled my order, I'm now curious how the update feels ...

If Meta was a self contained device I think it would be the 'one' for me my dev needs ...

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I've been curious if something cheap like this Haori Mirror (you could give it away to clients) combined w/ ARKit / ARCore (and even 6DAI for occlusion ) would be a great self contained FOV. I can't find a good stereo SDK for it though (unless it is just google "cardboard") . https://www.amazon.com/Docooler-Holographic-Hologram-Projector-4-2-5-7in/dp/B074NYZZS9

I know the Holokit and Vufine AR Kit do something similar but doesn't seem as durable,

YO /u/glitchwabble the most expensive Kindle FIRE I can find from amazon warehouse is actually THIS That is a $49.99 tablet!

Yep, you're right. I hadn't even thought to look on Amazon. Now I'm curious what that bump on the waveguide is.