> see what's in your house and on your body and deliver those relevant, targeted ads you so dearly crave.

"This guy has a vacuum cleaner. Let's recommend him more vacuum cleaners to buy!"

> "This guy has a vacuum cleaner. Let's recommend him more vacuum cleaners to buy!"

Even though every single one of the platforms claim to be using cutting edge tech for targeted ads but all of them suck. I don't see them improving even if you give them a guided tour of your home including closets

More info - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755498

I love ads that are targeted to me personally!

It might be interesting to have AR product advertising. Using your phone's camera and scanning your house/apartment perhaps you see a TV you are interested in buying hanging on your wall. Or a cool new car in your driveway. Maybe they could even be interactive and you could open the hood/trunk/doors etc.

I feel like the value in AR lies more in knowing where the user is, in proximity to what, and trying to draw them somewhere than necessarily showing them virtual overlays of items already in that physical space.

In other words, you use your phone's camera to do whatever, and the phone notices you linger at a window or a billboard (by tracking your eye movements and retinal responses.) You get home, and suggested items are virtually added to your living room.

Maybe you walk past a clothing store and it adds a new suit to your reflection.

Or AR games that require you to move past physical ads or storefronts, and take pictures of them.

That sounds like a hellish dystopia.

Probably not as dystopian as the pornography industry is going to get with AR, VR, dolls, etc.

There can be good utility for ads without being dystopian. Like furniture sets you want buy to preview in your new empty apartment - not items you are totally uninterested in buying. I'm sure there will be countless ideas to get ads on AR pretty soon that will be unaggressive and jive well psychologically

The day you can point your AR goggles at your SO and turn them into the anime/fandom/porn character of your choice, is the day AR porn gets its killer app.

It's also the day the doll industry blows up (no pun intended) - because if you need AR to be turned on by your SO, there'll be a lot of separations.

ya but at least ar can put whatever you want over the doll!