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My guess is that Microsoft's bet is less in AR in its own right, and more that the "phone" - a form factor that has changed once or twice a decade for the past
by trothamel 9y ago
My guess is that Microsoft's bet is less in AR in its own right, and more that the "phone" - a form factor that has changed once or twice a decade for the past 3 decades or so - is due for a form factor change. And they'd like to be ahead of the curve for once, rather than always catching up.
- ender89 9y agomore like ar on a phone is always going to be a gimmick, its way easier to just interact with the phone in your hand than to try to look through it. Hololense isn't just augmented reality, its 3d hands free augmented reality. arkit is just shitty graphics pasted over your shitty camera view
- Joeri 9y agoSomething that leaves your hands free and does AR is obviously the eventual form factor for our personal device, but hololens is way too bulky to be that thing. Maybe if they actually get it down to the size of a pair of lenses ... but that will take half a century.
- WorldMaker 9y agoHalf a century seems rather pessimistic. Just thinking of smartphone form factor changes in the last few years, a lot of small form factor display technology advances have happened rather rapidly.