Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR
by TeMPOraL on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:36PM
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With that, I can agree. AR will definitely be bigger at some point, because it can in principle be used in any scenario. It's meant to augment, not replace.
That said, let's remember that AR today does not exist. HoloLens demos barely qualify as AR. Google Glass was essentially a trimmed down ~2006 feature phone blocking some of your FOV. And before someone says this, Ingress and Pokémon Go do not qualify. It's not really AR until you can overlay images on top of the real world, and until those images are contextually relevant.
With the current trends I see in both spaces, VR has plenty of space to explode before AR becomes ubiquitous, or even usable.
That said, let's remember that AR today does not exist. HoloLens demos barely qualify as AR. Google Glass was essentially a trimmed down ~2006 feature phone blocking some of your FOV. And before someone says this, Ingress and Pokémon Go do not qualify. It's not really AR until you can overlay images on top of the real world, and until those images are contextually relevant.
With the current trends I see in both spaces, VR has plenty of space to explode before AR becomes ubiquitous, or even usable.