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[–] SlopppyEngineer 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

AR replaces all screens, buttons and interfaces with holograms. This can be a hologram with the shiny lines you see in many sci-fi, replacing laptop screens, fiddly little interfaces for gadgets, ... These things would also be great for designing stuff, teaching using proper models instead of pictures in a book.

Or it can be indistinguishable from real-life, such as having an empty paper book and have the AR glasses overlaying an e-book, such that it reads, looks, feels and smells like a classic tome. Weather predictions look like a note stuck to your door.

Then you have entertainment. That goes from table top games look like they are on the table, to running around outside casting fireballs and chain lighting.

Or it can be an ad riddled nightmare where everything you look at and your reaction is recorded and shared by corporations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it ~~can~~ will be an ad riddled nightmare where everything you look at and your reaction is recorded and shared by corporations.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, the first app for AR should be one that identifies people that are in the list of business persons or celebrities and show their net worth over their head like it's a reward for a game. Then watch as bespectacled grimy folks start following the rich bastards around and AR is outlawed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

fiddly little interfaces for gadgets

You can already do that with an app.

The technology is definitely cool but unless they can significantly reduce the price it's just not worth it