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As vision models get better there's lots of future applications - a database of all known insect and plant life with realtime overlay. Guided plumbing / electri

• MBCook 9y ago
  The last time I bought a couch a few years ago I had a horrible time trying to figure out exactly what size to get and what it would look like in my place. The announcement of the IKEA app that let you try out their furniture in your house by showing it in AR is amazing to me. That would've been SO helpful. It seems like it be a lot of possibilities for games, some of the things I've seen posted to Twitter have included people making virtual ruler that's accurate to within an inch or so. That alone would be a pretty useful app just for rough calculations of space sizes. But more than anything… There's probably some pretty cool stuff none of us are going to be able to think of until it shows up in the next six months. And that's what I really want to see.
• npunt 9y ago
  Yep. Most of those are made possible by AR's second, less frequently talked about enabling technology of accurate object detection. With it, the sky's the limit - literally repaint the world with your imagination. Grab objects and place virtual versions of them wherever. Overlay educational material on objects. Alter objects appearance in a much more meaningful way than mere filters. Without object detection though, AR use cases are more limited, which I think a lot of people riff off of when looking into it.