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How do you see AR playing out in terms of the distraction factor? I find that having such easy access to a phone makes me so much more distracted, which in turn

How do you see AR playing out in terms of the distraction factor? I find that having such easy access to a phone makes me so much more distracted, which in turn affects my ability to focus, to read, to be present. I’m really curious to see where AR goes but I’m also really getting into the whole screen/life balance thing.

ChicagoBoy11 6y ago
I think AR is actually the key to this not being a distraction. The thing about glass is that the display was fixed in your field of view, so it had to at once be sorta tucked away in the corner AND also present all at once. Compelling AR could solve this in a very compelling way, where you can now pin fully digital things to your physical world, and deal with that "distraction" that way. For example, I'm watching a re-run of the Formula 1 race as background noise now on one of my monitors, but its taking real estate that could be used for working. With a really good AR phone solution, I could just pin it as a big screen TV on my wall. it'll at once be more present but less of a "distraction"
agumonkey 6y ago
I'm conflicted, it's true that glass like products are less distracting yet the constant information overlay with life is probably gonna change things a lot.
- ChicagoBoy11 6y ago
  I agree, but that's where AR can really shine. With glass, constantly having it in your face was the only option. With advanced AR, things could easily be pinned to the world to allow you far more control and greater context over what you see and when. I think it may prove to give us more control and freedom over these things, not less. On my phone, for instance, I have no choice but to watch something but also be bombarded with notification messages from all sorts of things I don't care about -- in an AR phone-like environment, you could more elegantly segregate these things, and ultimately potentially allow the user greater control over their consumption of content.
  - agumonkey 6y ago
    I kinda disagree. The simple notion that I'm near a connected modem alters my brain (I'm not exaggerating for once).

ChicagoBoy11 6y ago

I think AR is actually the key to this not being a distraction. The thing about glass is that the display was fixed in your field of view, so it had to at once be sorta tucked away in the corner AND also present all at once. Compelling AR could solve this in a very compelling way, where you can now pin fully digital things to your physical world, and deal with that "distraction" that way. For example, I'm watching a re-run of the Formula 1 race as background noise now on one of my monitors, but its taking real estate that could be used for working. With a really good AR phone solution, I could just pin it as a big screen TV on my wall. it'll at once be more present but less of a "distraction"

agumonkey 6y ago

I'm conflicted, it's true that glass like products are less distracting yet the constant information overlay with life is probably gonna change things a lot.

ChicagoBoy11 6y ago
I agree, but that's where AR can really shine. With glass, constantly having it in your face was the only option. With advanced AR, things could easily be pinned to the world to allow you far more control and greater context over what you see and when. I think it may prove to give us more control and freedom over these things, not less. On my phone, for instance, I have no choice but to watch something but also be bombarded with notification messages from all sorts of things I don't care about -- in an AR phone-like environment, you could more elegantly segregate these things, and ultimately potentially allow the user greater control over their consumption of content.
- agumonkey 6y ago
  I kinda disagree. The simple notion that I'm near a connected modem alters my brain (I'm not exaggerating for once).