I can't wait for the integration with HMDs!<p>It'll be so useful to see contextual advertising near all of my favorite shops with the great deals that I love -- all without having to clip coupons! It'll be great when this is paired with facial recognition, so that I can see just the ads that I need for my personal situation at that moment. Maybe they'll even give me a better deal since I'm such a frequent customer!<p>Two thumbs up!
I totally don't get how this could be useful without smart glasses. Most people already spend to much time staring at their phones and with this crap will be even worst. Such solutions were already years ago and were not adopted because phones were too weak and software unusable. Nothing has changed except that we have better phones and rest is still a crap.<p>I just wait for someone to fall under the car collecting gold circles...<p>EDIT: Don't get me wrong, AR have a huge potential but not for flying emojis or playing RPG games running all over the city like a maniac with a huge phone.
They must be seeing something I don’t, if you pardon my pun. I don’t see “AR collaboration” as even remotely viable outside of a few very specific niches, and will remain skeptical of this whole AR thing until I see a demo. The only spaces I’m aware of where AR/VR collaboration is currently viable all deal with the physical world to one extent or another: real estate sales, furniture sales, construction, that sort of thing. I could get behind “Kingsman” style teleconferencing if it works spectacularly well. Other than that, I’m drawing a blank.
Any idea how it works behind the scenes? From some of the details, I assume the mapping is gps + sensors + something like Photosynth or this: <a href="https://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-09/building-virtual-cities-automatically-150000-flickr-photos" rel="nofollow">https://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-09/buil...</a>
Just looking around me now and imagining everything I see having an augmented reality overlay it seems exhausting. I guess the giant blue arrows will help me focus.