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Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate by hprotagonist on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:03PM (#27585682)
>I don't know what the "killer app" for AR is really going to be.

I wonder if it really is a navigation HUD. For example, i’d love this, with some auditory interface, for things like cycling and motorcycling and also probably normal driving too. Safely presenting salient information in the same depth of focus as the road, and giving me tools to interact with it with voice, would be good AR in those situations, and i’m in them pretty frequently.

Is that a big enough market? Will it inevitably descend into the inverse of They Live?

we’ve given the hardware a shot at least a few times now and wearable glasses tech has not yet been useful. But i can’t think of anything else.

Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate by nixpulvis on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:28PM (#27586435)
They can also just project the image onto your retina directly, but this requires some serious tracking I don't understand or know if it really exists.
Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate by hprotagonist on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:33AM (#27592985)
people have been playing with it since the 80s, but it has yet to become more than alpha/research stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display