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Pokemon Go was the first non-creepy AR use case. Everything else they came up with with Google Glass and such involved disturbing mass surveillance type stuff.
by narrator 10y ago
Pokemon Go was the first non-creepy AR use case. Everything else they came up with with Google Glass and such involved disturbing mass surveillance type stuff. Even so, Pokemon Go was treated as a national security threat by some governments.
With AR you could do all kinds of kind of socially awkward crap. Can you think how cringe inducing AR Tinder would be?
- guelo 10y agoYelp's Monocle has been doing non-creepy AR since 2009.
- kriro 10y agoWell Ingress also exists. But I'd agree if you mean mass/mainstream use case.
- soylentcola 10y agoAll those dedicated agents, forgotten as soon as someone decided to slap cute cartoon characters and "training gyms" on our interdimensional portals...
- soylentcola 10y agoI dunno....I don't find either to be necessarily creepy (although you can find creepy uses for just about anything I guess). Still, using a game to track your travels and location combined with the whole business aspect of an uptick in customers when you're a popular poke-location seems just as potentially creepy than the stuff that got people wailing and gnashing teeth over Glass - namely...a camera that you're always carrying around on your face. I mean...miniature cameras are old news and they're a lot easier to hide in ways where people don't realize you have a camera. Just as there have always been ways to track stuff like location and purchases via cell phone location and credit card use. The stuff in Pokemon isn't much "creepier" than what your average map app or social "gamifying" app like Foursquare does.