In the AR circles, what they are building is called the AR Cloud - basically a digital representation of the physical world. A “complete state” of this digital

In the AR circles, what they are building is called the AR Cloud - basically a digital representation of the physical world. A “complete state” of this digital world has a number of practical benefits for autonomous vehicles/drones, but you’re right that in the path to get there is mostly going to be filled with gaming and advertising, and the occasional niceties. I wrote about some applications here: https://paul.copplest.one/blog/augmented-reality.html https://paul.copplest.one/blog/augmented-reality.html