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Yan Thoinet

Is Augmented Reality Garbage or Golden? - 0 views

  • technology that displays layers of data on top of our view of physical reality through mobile phone cameras, projected images and webcams.
  • AR browsers like Layar and Wikitude are like Gopher was in 1991 -- early, geeky, not a lot of content, not a great experience...but watch what happens next.
  • It confirms to me there are no useful AR apps right now, and also that the feasible apps are very limited, because they all seem kind of similar to one another.
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  • It's just so much easier for me to use an ordinary browser map application and see all the locations of interest for any conceivable query than to mess around with a phone's camera.
  • you really need a lightweight high-res infinite-battery HMD with meter-accuracy location for it to make much sense to me -- snapping photos through a cellphone and looking at crappy low-res decorations on the result seems very weak to me, especially given the error scale of GPS
  • there may be some special purpose AR apps in the short term that are useful and effective for narrow uses
  • low-tech AR
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