Re:The Great Bifurcation
by abletonlive on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:33AM
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really? I have yet to seen anybody that actually cares about AR at all in my day to day interactions
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Re:The Great Bifurcation
by NineStarPoint on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:40AM
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Quite a few people interested in the circles I walk in, but pretty much everyone also agrees that the technology just isn't particularly close to viable yet (cost is high, general usability is low). And that's ignoring the google-glass style problems there would be with general use.
There are both technology and social aspects.
The technology has to be at the point where you can casually wear fashionable glasses which overlay easily readable information.
And other people would need to be OK with the fact that people are wearing said glasses that put them on candid camera at all times.
Microsoft is pushing Hololens dev, Meta is pushing AR features into the Quest, Snap just put out some AR spectacles. There's development interest but the consumer devices aren't quite ready yet so there's no real market quite yet.