<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>downandout</author><text>This is what I was thinking. That conversation probably went something like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“We need more money.”&lt;p&gt;“We gave you $2 billion. You’re going to have to ship something before we give you more.”&lt;p&gt;“Hmmm...we aren’t ready to ship and may not be for some time...what if instead of shipping, we can show you that 50K people are interested in buying it? Will you give us some more money then?”&lt;p&gt;“Sure, you show us that 50k people want to buy it and we will write you another check”.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So they created an email opt-in page, photoshopped some 3D renders of a product that doesn’t exist yet onto a person’s head, and did a press release calling this page an “unveiling”.  That’s really all this is - a “coming soon” page for something that may or
may not be vaporware.  Investors are getting antsy and want some sense of what the actual market is for this thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>My guess is, they are wanting more money. It&amp;#x27;s not really ready and won&amp;#x27;t ship next year. I agree something is fishy.</text></item><item><author>lvoudour</author><text>Since the 1st iteration of the design is apparently ready, why can&amp;#x27;t they just show a small demo?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s supposed to be &lt;i&gt;shipping&lt;/i&gt; in 2018. They could easily have hired a team of top notch creators to showcase some of the capabilities of the device live -even if the device is still not 100% ready- instead of this silly Manhattan project secrecy. I hope they deliver as promised, but something smells fishy.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a pity, because unlike VR I think AR has huge potential both for consumer and industrial applications.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magic Leap One</title><url>https://www.magicleap.com/?utm_source=reveal&amp;utm_medium=TW&amp;utm_campaign=WTDO</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Maybe they are waiting to ship on the same day that Ready Player One comes out :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>My guess is, they are wanting more money. It&amp;#x27;s not really ready and won&amp;#x27;t ship next year. I agree something is fishy.</text></item><item><author>lvoudour</author><text>Since the 1st iteration of the design is apparently ready, why can&amp;#x27;t they just show a small demo?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s supposed to be &lt;i&gt;shipping&lt;/i&gt; in 2018. They could easily have hired a team of top notch creators to showcase some of the capabilities of the device live -even if the device is still not 100% ready- instead of this silly Manhattan project secrecy. I hope they deliver as promised, but something smells fishy.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a pity, because unlike VR I think AR has huge potential both for consumer and industrial applications.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magic Leap One</title><url>https://www.magicleap.com/?utm_source=reveal&amp;utm_medium=TW&amp;utm_campaign=WTDO</url></story>