A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Reality Hits?

Re:A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Realit... by jaggederest on Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:58PM (#14714646)

You realize that the entire thesis of your statements are given the lie by the fact that Google Cardboard exists, right? It's literally holding the phone up to your face, and using the camera to take photos out the side. I've used it to filter reality

"AR" doesn't mean "projecting clear text onto the real world". It means retransmitting the real world from a camera onto an LCD with things added.

We literally already have the technology built into phones. You add some lenses and a battery pack and you're good.

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Re:A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Realit... by ekianjo on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:17AM (#14716256)

That's hardly going to comfortable to keep your eyes focused on short distance for a long period of time. That's the problem with "holding the phone up to your face".

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Re:A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Realit... by jaggederest on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:52AM (#14716811)

Your eyes are not focused on a short distance. The whole point is that the lenses make it so that your eyes focus to infinity while the device is very close.

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