Magic Leap goes to Finland in pursuit of VR and AR talent
So here&#x27;s my concern with Magic Leap.  (And I say this with friends working there, so I WANT them to succeed more than anything, but I can&#x27;t help but look askew at some of the secrecy)<p>If their technology is _so critically secret_ that everything needs to be under more NDA&#x2F;IP protection than I&#x27;ve seen in almost any other consumer product, one would think that implies it&#x27;s readily duplicatable if someone just had the secret sauce?  But in that case, one would expect to see more results after how long they&#x27;ve been in dev.  I&#x27;ve heard in many cases founders&#x2F;VCs laugh at the concept of &quot;keeping your million dollar idea secret&quot; because of the concern that someone will steal it, let alone a concept so complex that a group of some of the better specialists in this area (AR&#x2F;VR&#x2F;robotics&#x2F;wearables&#x2F;vision) have taken this long to bring a product to market.<p>So is the concern just about entities like Google&#x2F;MSR who would show up out of the blue willing to throw essentially endless money at the problem? Because off the top of my head they have not shown a great track record of even executing on _their own_ ideas with a compelling end product on a fast enough time-scale to be competitive against someone with a multi year lead. I&#x27;m just not sure I follow the benefit of this level of secrecy compared to the amount of skepticism it naturally generates in someone who would love to be an early adopter.