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I think ar might be a dead dream in its current state, I always thought wed have proper ar glasses by now because I fell for Magic Leaps Marketting, not sure if it'll come anytime soon.

What I do believe is coming is the resurgence of computers through mobile phones. Everyone has a powerful computer in their pockets but isn't able to use them to their full potential. I wouldn't be suprised if android pushed out a proper android desktop experience letting android users get the full linux desktop experience when plugged into a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

Phone performance is stronger than the average laptops/netbooks from 10 years age and they run linux fine for everyday use. Feels like a missed opportunity if someone doesn't drop a phone or os that lets you take advantage of modern hardwares capability. They could advertise it to families, mo more buying a pc for school, just get them hardware for their existing device, it can already do everything. Schools could use lapdocks, or tabletdocks, that could force school parental controls on devices while at school and still let them use it for their education while in class.

(obviously not everyone has a phone but that frees up resources for the kids that dont, if the kids that do can use cheaper docks with their exisitnt hardware)

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[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AR is coming around a bit but the innovations I have been following with it are less individual consumer based. The absolutely crazy one my company was trying to implement was for an area that deals with fairly dangerous chemicals and had a lot of complex piping so with the glasses they would be synced to the equipment so you could track pipes, see through walls, and see plant conditions while just wearing some AR glasses.

I know they have also talked about trying to do something similar in surgical fields as well

I personally think the cost to make a good AR interface is just way to expensive to justify the consumer market right now, like for our AR system if it stopped a single incorrect discharge it would mostly pay for itself as that could be millions of dollars/ loss of life but for an average person who might use it to see overlays of fun fact esque things while they walk around a $1000/mo cost just doesn’t make sense

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago

ideally itd be a phone replacement or use your phones power to supplement its own wirelessly, kinda useless if you still need to whip your phone out, i wonder if wed have fake slabs you carry around for use in ar by ppl used to touchscreens lol