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edit: Dammit, I'll be back!

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so what the fuck...Ben Franklin discovered that ground glass dangled on the end of ones' nose could assist in human eyesight...terminator futures look promising, fuck yer mother, once you sign on, you forget you were ever born....

*quality there we go.

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AR is the new VR. It has much broader applicability. Also, because the real world is also there, it often doesn't cause the discomfort that more immersive displays can cause for inexperienced viewers. It's still expensive, but there are low cost solutions that are beginning to emerge.

One problem with the technology has been the logistics of carrying the weight of a display on your head. A patent I'm excited about was filed by Apple a year or two ago. It's for a head-mounted display which is effectively projected on glasses in front of the face. Now that alone isn't innovative, but their idea is to pipe the projection through fiber optics from a hip, or otherwise mounted projector. That avoids the many of the freedom of movement problems associated with head mounted displays. Apple could once again show the rest of the market how to make preexisting technologies commercially viable.

I think there are still a bunch of problems with a head-mounted AR system, but to use it in cars as a HUD, like it's being used in Jet Fighters would be awesom-o! It just depends on how expensive the technology is and what real-world applications it could have. The above video is one example, but something "simpler" like a built-in GPS system would be fancy too.
>> ^bmacs27:
AR is the new VR. It has much broader applicability. Also, because the real world is also there, it often doesn't cause the discomfort that more immersive displays can cause for inexperienced viewers. It's still expensive, but there are low cost solutions that are beginning to emerge.
One problem with the technology has been the logistics of carrying the weight of a display on your head. A patent I'm excited about was filed by Apple a year or two ago. It's for a head-mounted display which is effectively projected on glasses in front of the face. Now that alone isn't innovative, but their idea is to pipe the projection through fiber optics from a hip, or otherwise mounted projector. That avoids the many of the freedom of movement problems associated with head mounted displays. Apple could once again show the rest of the market how to make preexisting technologies commercially viable.

This is the future of sex education.

It really is the technology we saw in movies 10 years ago. And it won't be long until we'll have simply glasses (like today's 3d glasses) with OLED painted on the interior displaying everything instead of the bulky crap in the demo.

I agree, AR is the new VR and soon, it will be 'everywhere'.

>> ^bmacs27:
AR is the new VR.


I sure hope not...