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Google AR/VR software lead quits, heavily criticizes company on way out
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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AR Laser-Tag with your friends. They have health bars and when you shoot them, the damage displays like in borderlands.
You're right though. Every example I've seen demoed is something that teleports you somewhere else. Your own theater. The cockpit of a car, somewhere other than where you're at. Apple and Microsoft has some Rudimentary floating windows/workspaces, but to me that's just like looking at a screen anyways. If AR worked like it does in video games, combined with strong image and facial recognition and object detection, giving real time contextual useful information, it could be so ubiquitous that people end up feeling like it's just another natural part of their interactions with the world around them and others.
Oh yeah! There are all kinds of cool games you could play with AR.
My old school used to get really into "assassin". Some organizer would divide everyone into a big circle but everyone was only told their connection in one direction (ie everyone knew their target but nobody knew who was targeting them. This was in NYC. Kids would pull out Rayline Tracer Guns in the subway and pop each other. AR would be a much better way to do that.
Games like Pokemon Go would be much cooler with AR.