Hi @design-guy,
Just came by to show some support. Yeah, I've been following magic leap since it was hush-hush over a year ago and all the big players came in to invest 1 Billion.
I didn't know investment went upto 1.9B. The buy behind it is some sort of genius inventor, will be impressive to see if this can dominate the market in the next 5 years.
I wonder what would be the biggest social draw for this besides games (and porn I suppose), any thoughts on that?
I don't think social will be the big impact if there is a big impact. I think it will be lots of little things like I described. Teaching in schools could be a huge one - spinning around the solar system or even looking into the human body from circulatory system to organs to bone structure. It could be with simulating trying on clothing for ecommerce stores or swapping out different colors and material finishes in a build your own car website. And also just for information gathering when walking down the street and wanting to know more about the empire state building or if a store has any sales in your size, etc. These are all things that people have talked about and I don't know if this first model will be even close to accomplishing any of this, but I think that at some point this is where the technology will be heading and how it will be useful.