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The video is real. It’s a recording of the actual software being used live.

Things that are different irl vs the video:

1: Experience irl is way cooler. We use it internally for meetings. It’s amazing to take a photo on your phone and see it show up in the air in front if you. It’s awesome to see someone rez in and start walking around. It’s fun to put your hands up, start talking, and watch 3d models and images show up. The playfulness and interactivity is much more exciting in person than in the video.

2: The field of view on existing AR hardware is limited. Everyone working in AR hears this to the point of exhaustion, but anyone trying AR for the first time can’t help but notice it. So, the experience is different than in the video because you can only see AR through a smallish view. This will, of course, improve soon.

3: The video ui isn’t rendered additively and has some added zing that is less performant when using in real life (eg higher antialiasing)

Haha yeah, infinite whiteboard would be awesome.

- Mischa @ spatial

Ah, yes. Good point, I forgot about standalone headsets. Although one drawback is that everyone would have to remain seated if it's 3dof like Go.

Standalone inside out headsets could work (quest), but people still would bump into each other since they wouldn't have a good sense of where other headsets are.

These drawbacks would be OK for some meetings, but dealbreakers for others.

In many of the meetings where you could remain seated, there's a requirement to screen share from a laptop (as you mention) that likely won't go away in the near term.

Correct. Walls are mapped to each other, so if you are looking at your wall in location A and putting a shared screen there, it is also on my wall at location B.

There are some gnarly issues around this, of course, but Spatial has a pretty advanced approach that works in most cases.

There's no other hardware required. It's just hololens and magic leap (plus other devices like iPhone, laptop).

Hololens and Magic leap both have hand tracking, so the device knows if you are putting your hand up (and has some sense of its position and orientation), plus head pose.

"Sway" on device is actually more minimal that what you're seeing in the video.

In lots of situations, there are 3 or 4 people in one location and one or two remote people joining. With current VR tech, in order to make this happen you'd have to have 4 beefy laptops with Windows MR headsets in the meeting room. People wouldn't be able to see their local collaborators faces, drink a glass of water, or sit in a chair. With AR, the local peole can all see each other and conduct a meeting, while also seeing AR people at the table with them.

Additionally, we have all of these devices (laptops, phones) that we'll continue to use for the foreseeable future. VR forces you into a single mode where using your phone is impossible. AR lets you do more of a hybrid approach.

Long term I agree that VR will have more benefits (especially if you had hybrid ar/vr glasses), but in the near term it has too many drawbacks to be useful for collaborative productivity sessions like this.

Thanks, good feedback. We cleaned up the locations.

We don't track of what currency job postings are in, so the stats for non-USD job listings would be confusing. Some people are posting in USD, others in Euros, etc.

It's something we should do.

For now, you can see what jobs we have in any location at angel.co/jobs (filter by location).

Cool! Hope you keep working on this. Lots of ways to slice this data.

Re: Non-US cities - we aren't keeping track of what currency job postings are in, so the data for non-USD job listings would be confusing. Some people are posting in USD, others in euros, etc.

For now, you can see what jobs we have in London, or anywhere else by going to angel.co/jobs and then filtering by location.

Good point. This is fixed. Ranges are now .25-.4%, .5-.9%, etc. Thanks for the feedback. - mischa @ angellist

Added - thanks for the suggestion!