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Augmented reality will be a part of everyday life.

• chubot 9y ago
  It will take awhile from the breakthrough to when it becomes part of everyday life. The internet was around for a decade or more before the web. The web was the breakthrough required for mass adoption -- rich media over the network. Also ubiquitous PCs were necessary. I argue that the internet didn't become part of every day life until 2004 or so. I've been on the web since 93, and am a programmer, but in 2002 I went a whole summer without internet access because I was subletting a room without it. Before 2004 or so, the web was really for looking up stuff. After Facebook and MySpace, "life" started happening on the internet. The nightly news would report things that happened on Twitter. So I'd say that augmented reality hasn't had its www moment yet, and after that it may take a decade or more to become part of every day life. Really adoption is a social issue, so what needs to happen is that the old generation dies. That said, Snapchat might later be viewed as the precursor to AR, and it has wide usage. It might be that generation or the next.
  • noir_lord 9y ago
    > The internet was around for a decade or more before the web. Though the definition is fuzzy the Internet traces it's roots back to the 60's, specifically the first connection between two machines on arpanet was 1969. 1981 (a decade before the web) did see a big exapansion but there where already several hundred machines talking to each other by then.