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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...

The post Survios president and co-founder Nathan Burba is joining us at TechCrunch Sessions: AR/VR appeared first on BardTech . There’s nothing inherently social about VR. In fact, putting on a headset and entering your own world can be a fairly isolating experience. But Survios’ latest offering is looking to turn that truism on its head. Electronauts is designed to deliver a social experience, in which players can create music for their surroundings. The new title is immersive, but designed to be played in a social setting, like a party. Players inhabit a kind of Tron-like world, remixing tracks by popular acts like Steve Aoki and D.J. Shadow in real time. It’s a group experience the company envisions as something similar to Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Electronauts is an impressive title from the California VR studio that also developed the addictive first-person shooter, Raw Data . Formed in 2013 by a trio of University of Southern California students, Survios is among the most ...