The synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota

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billsossoon · 2014-12 · Recommendation

For anybody curious about Magic Leap, I highly recommend this TED talk by the company's founder Rony Abovitz: [VIDEO] It starts off kinda weird, you gotta give it a few minutes.

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DonHopkins · 2026-01 · Criticism

In the same sense that we also got [total surrealistic non sequitur] out of it -- no causal connection. Cocaine addled money laundering sexist nepotistic bro culture deserves all the harshness it gets. I dare you to waste 6:17 minutes of your life that you will never get back watching this, and tell me they didn't spend a huge chunk of their investor's money on cocaine. The synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota: [VIDEO] >Surprises abound in this multimedia, surrealist talk/performance by Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota. Rony is a recognized innovator and entrepreneur, having co-founded the pioneering robotics company, MAKO Surgical Corp, which was recognized by Deloitte as the #1 fastest growing tech company in North America in 2011. Part of TEDxSarasota's inaugural conference held on 12/12/12 with the theme "Creativity Matters" at the Historic Asolo Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.

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DonHopkins · 2026-01 · Criticism

[LINK] DonHopkins 16 hours ago | prev [–] It's a good thing they're effectively dead, but they don't have any useful parts to carve out, because they were a fraud through and through from day one, infested with toxic sexist nepotistic bro culture, and were an embarrassment and warning to the industry. No surprise at all they unethically bricked their useless overpriced electronic waste. [LINK] DonHopkins on Dec 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: I bought those AR cycling glasses that were on HN ... Why not simply do what Magic Leap does, and blatantly fake the camera images and games that don't really and couldn't possibly exist? [LINK] And then rip off other people's work without giving them any credit in your patents. [LINK] And then sexually harass the very women you employed to solve the endemic "pink/blue problem" and fix the nepotistic sexist bro culture, and rebuff and ignore her advice, and pay her off to keep their mouth shut when she sues you for sexual harassment. [LINK] And then give the entire AR industry a bad name by not delivering on your outrageously hyped promises, while burning through BILLIONS of dollars and fucking over your foolishly gullible investors. [LINK] fredoralive 8 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] Don’t be so harsh, at least we got the Steam Deck out of all this. DonHopkins 5 minutes ago | root | parent | next | edit | delete [–] In the same sense that we also got [total surrealistic non sequitur] out of it -- no causal connection.

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