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Re:The End of Marae – my attempt to build the AR cloud by goodcjw2 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:43PM (#27612038)
One way to think about AR is that it can do everything your Oculus Quest can do, but in the form of a pair of glasses that you can wear all day (like those prescription glasses that people already wearing).

VR is like the PC you use at home / in office, AR is more like smartphones on the go. There is obviously quite a big technical gap :)

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Re:The End of Marae – my attempt to build the AR cloud by smoldesu on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:14PM (#27612287)
This "AR" that you're describing doesn't exist though. Current AR-equipped devices don't have anywhere near the FOV or contrast you can find in a basic HMD.

Also, your second analogy is paradoxical. If AR is capable of doing "everything [the] Oculus Quest can do", why does VR even exist today?

I understand the concept of AR, I just want to talk to someone actually involved in the hardware space about what they're doing to move the market forwards.

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