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Magic Leap Wants Workers To Use Its Headsets While They’re Stuck At Home (theverge.com) 1
Posted by BeauHD from the work-from-home dept.
Mixed reality startup Magic Leap is trying to tempt potential buyers with a package for people stuck working from home. The Verge reports: The “Collaboration Package” is a 45-day trial of four Magic Leap headsets, plus access to Spatial, a virtual collaboration program. It costs $5,000, with the option to extend the license or send the headsets back afterward. Spatial creates avatars of users based on photos, then lets them hold meetings with these avatars and virtual screens. It isn’t exclusive to Magic Leap or mixed reality headsets; the software also works across computers and phones. But headsets can (in some ways) more realistically simulate sharing a room with a distant colleague.
instead of trying to sell the company to a sucker?
Sold 20K headsets for 2300 each (dev costs of 150K per headset), and now they’re selling them for 1250?Nah. They’re going on the magazine ‘forgot to cancel’ model. The price point is irrelevant, the vulture behavior is the bigger deal.
- … I read recently that Magic Leap was pretty much a failure after finally showing their lack-luster technology. Has something changed?
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