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What exactly are people going to do in AR that's so compelling?

by TwoBit 10y ago

fsloth 10y ago
The view part is only one half of AR. The second is that it provides a 3D surface of the users field of view. Industrial uses and helpdesking are obvious. 1. Less need for physical interfaces on machinery 2. Need help in, say, fixing the elevator? AR allows the helper in other end see what you see and point out things and direcr movement in persons field of view 3. Building maintenance. To point out the location of work, just let the AR device guide you there
kriro 10y ago
It's amazing for sales of heavy/bulky products. We're selling rather simple apps that just visualize a product on a nicely produced marker to manufacturers of all sorts. Workflow for their sales teams is pretty much...take marker to customer or event, use iPad or another tablet to show it. Sometimes we add simple interactions like tapping on things to change colors and the like. We keep raising the price and still haven't reached the point where sales get hard. This is pretty much the simplest possible AR (one object via marker and handheld device). Decent AR glasses are quite good in warehouses etc...basically think heads up display. Mixed reality seems to be focused on meetings/conversations in all the samples but I'm sure there's other interesting applications. We've experimented with tracking buildings and so on and I can see adding stats and info to real world objects. The tech isn't quite there yet (FOV), interaction will remain a big barrier for quite some time (imo). There will also be some interesting ethical questions that need to be asked once we really "get there" and the objects get so real that they are hard/impossible to distinguish. Think about facial recognition+overlays of different faces etc.
skdotdan 10y ago
At least, the same they do on their phones.
marcosdumay 10y ago
Imagine what you can do with heads-up displays on any daily situation. Easy to imagine how people would use one meeting other people in a party (must be some fashionable glasses), buying groceries, or merely receiving notifications doing whatever. Hard to imagine how it would be useful within known people, or in leisure activities (except for AR games). At work one would need to look at it case by case. I doubt there's any general tool.

What exactly are people going to do in AR that's so compelling?

by TwoBit 10y ago

What exactly are people going to do in AR that's so compelling?

The view part is only one half of AR. The second is that it provides a 3D surface of the users field of view. Industrial uses and helpdesking are obvious. 1. Less need for physical interfaces on machinery 2. Need help in, say, fixing the elevator? AR allows the helper in other end see what you see and point out things and direcr movement in persons field of view 3. Building maintenance. To point out the location of work, just let the AR device guide you there

kriro 10y ago

It's amazing for sales of heavy/bulky products. We're selling rather simple apps that just visualize a product on a nicely produced marker to manufacturers of all sorts. Workflow for their sales teams is pretty much...take marker to customer or event, use iPad or another tablet to show it. Sometimes we add simple interactions like tapping on things to change colors and the like. We keep raising the price and still haven't reached the point where sales get hard. This is pretty much the simplest possible AR (one object via marker and handheld device). Decent AR glasses are quite good in warehouses etc...basically think heads up display. Mixed reality seems to be focused on meetings/conversations in all the samples but I'm sure there's other interesting applications. We've experimented with tracking buildings and so on and I can see adding stats and info to real world objects. The tech isn't quite there yet (FOV), interaction will remain a big barrier for quite some time (imo). There will also be some interesting ethical questions that need to be asked once we really "get there" and the objects get so real that they are hard/impossible to distinguish. Think about facial recognition+overlays of different faces etc.

skdotdan 10y ago

At least, the same they do on their phones.

marcosdumay 10y ago

Imagine what you can do with heads-up displays on any daily situation. Easy to imagine how people would use one meeting other people in a party (must be some fashionable glasses), buying groceries, or merely receiving notifications doing whatever. Hard to imagine how it would be useful within known people, or in leisure activities (except for AR games). At work one would need to look at it case by case. I doubt there's any general tool.