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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by petra on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:02PM (#20788630)
AR for businesses(like AR repair manuals, etc) seems like a good idea.

But in that case , downloading the data locally seems like a real option.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:06PM (#20788656)
And if the AR processing is being done on device—which I think it has to be due to latency, even under 5G—the data to be downloaded really isn’t that large. We’re talking images and 3D models.
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by wtf42 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @05:28PM (#20789824)
> data to be downloaded really isn’t that large. We’re talking images and 3D models.

I think you underestimate image sizes for modern AR/VR applications. For example, good quality light-field can take few gigabytes for one image. Also there is a big UX difference between downloading full image ahead and downloading parts on-demand (similar to modern video streaming - today we never download full video ahead).

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