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The post Oculus co-founder trashes Magic Leap headset in review, calling it a ‘tragic heap’ appeared first on BardTech . It isn’t the most usual situation for a founder to write a review trashing a competitor’s new product, but Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has never been the most conventional entrepreneur. Yesterday, Luckey  published a review of Magic Leap’s developer kit on his personal blog titled “ Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap,” wherein he offered  a few compliments but spent the majority of his words highlighting shortcomings of the new device while seeking to remind everyone of all the shit that Magic Leap execs talked about existing AR tech and how they nevertheless ended up running with a device that, in his opinion, made only minor improvements over the three-year-old HoloLens.  My review of Magic Leap ML1. It focuses on a few points that have not been broadly reported or analyzed by the media. https://t.co/ciBwUigIoQ — Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) A...

The post Teardown of Magic Leap One reveals highly advanced placeholder tech appeared first on BardTech . The screwdriver-happy dismantlers at iFixit have torn the Magic Leap One augmented reality headset all to pieces, and the takeaway seems to be that the device is very much a work in progress — but a highly advanced one. Its interesting optical assembly, described as “surprisingly ugly,” is laid bare for all to see. The head-mounted display and accompanying computing unit are definitely meant for developers, as we know , but the basic methods and construction Magic Leap is pursuing are clear from this initial hardware. It’s unlikely that there will be major changes to how the gadget works except to make it cheaper, lighter and more reliable. At the heart of Magic Leap’s tech is its AR display, which overlays 3D images over and around the real world. This is accomplished through a stack of waveguides that allow light to pass along them invisibly, then bounce it out toward your...