Augmented reality will exacerbate our unhealthy relationship with technology
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#2AR as we're currently thinking about it will be a nightmare.
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#3This article goes on a rant about AR and how it will be used for more spying, emotional manipulation, etc that social media has perpetrated. Then defends VR as somehow shielded from these things:
"Most of us don’t have a healthy relationship with technology, and AR as currently thought of, will just exacerbate that. It’s why I really like VR more than AR, because VR is a separate world that you consciously decide to be in for a time."
And yet the author fails to mention that a good chunk of the VR market is dominated by Facebook, one of the very companies doing the things he railed against. Already they force Facebook login with Oculus. So much for your imagined separation of virtual and real life.
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#4For my part I don't really care about "AR" as it actually applies to augmenting reality, and in fact I'm pretty sure that if I got such a device I'd have most of the functionality like that turned off, the same way I have most location-aware app functionality disabled on my phone and most notifications turned off on my smartwatch. I just like the idea of having a screen in my glasses that can replace carrying around a Kindle / iPad for reading and other light media consumption.
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#5Seems like this takes a very narrow view of AR and just focuses on every possible negative aspect and for every possible branch only considers the worst case scenario.
Poor quality article.
AR is merely a tool, how we as individuals chose to use it will define what impact is has on each of our lives.
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#6AR as we're currently thinking about it will be a nightmare.
The reality of it will likely be worse than that.
Re: Augmented reality will exacerbate our unhealthy relationship with technology
#7Seems like this takes a very narrow view of AR and just focuses on every possible negative aspect and for every possible branch only considers the worst case scenario. Poor quality article. AR is merely a tool, how we as individuals chose to use it will define what impact is has on each of our lives.
We've done so well with social media.
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#8VR will be terrible because, yes, people will be manipulated through virtual realities made up for them to achieve different things. Some options will undoubtedly be good (learning and so on), Others will be worse than any FaceBook bubble + gaming/gambling + video games combined could ever be. Imagine the "re-educational" possibilities here for a sec.
You get to plug in to any reality you want or someone wants for you and you get manipulated through these realities and you no longer live in actual reality but live in a virtual one fabricated for you and people like you and you get manipulated any which way the powers that be want you to be. Gamification will be rampant and will absorb people in to it. They will have little need for actual reality, be it relationships or much else.
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#9Between my hobbies and sports, something that has been driven home for me over the last 5-10 years is that there is so much going on around us that we never see.
If we use AR to see things that are already there, that will be one thing. But odds are that we will instead use it to see things that aren't there.
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#10VR will be terrible because, yes, people will be manipulated through virtual realities made up for them to achieve different things. Some options will undoubtedly be good (learning and so on), Others will be worse than any FaceBook bubble + gaming/gambling + video games combined could ever be. Imagine the "re-educational" possibilities here for a sec. You get to plug in to any reality you want or someone wants for yo…
> Gamification will be rampant and will absorb people in to it.
When I see how much mundane grinding people are willing to do for video game rewards, it makes me wonder if status or cosmetics in a virtual world will ever be used in place of real compensation for work. Maybe as a gig economy thing? That would effectively give the world controllers the ability to create currency. Virtual economics are already huge and people work in them for fun.