Augmented reality will exacerbate our unhealthy relationship with technology

Post by germinalphrase » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

toomanybeersies wrote: post #49

germinalphrase wrote: post #21

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The mistake being made is that audio based AR is here and practical, if underutilized. Apple’s transparency mode (and competitor equivalents) is a critical innovation both on usability and social acceptance levels. It supports the blending of digital augmentations on the real world. Audio based AR is also free of many social signs that visual AR systems have struggle with. In particular, I work with teenagers and the…

> there seems to be little stigma around holding a conversation with earbuds in place Maybe it's a generational or cultural thing, but I find that kind of thing incredibly rude. But I'm also the kind of person who takes my sunglasses off when I'm talking face-to-face with other people.

Post by aaron695 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

toast0 wrote: post #39

aaron695 wrote: post #31

Augmented reality will never exist. So lucky Even in the movies all they can come up with is ads. Anything useful it might be able to do makes the task redundant. It can tell you how to put together your IKEA furniture, then it could tell a robot what to do.

Robot arms are cool and do all sorts of things human arms can't, however, human arms are way better at manipulating objects in the wild. You can program robots to build furniture, but programming them to build furniture from a box in my house is not going to be worth the effort.