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AR is going to have to fight and uphill battle for adoption. Many of us have see the damage smartphones and social media have done to society, and AR is present
by mrweasel 5y ago
AR is going to have to fight and uphill battle for adoption. Many of us have see the damage smartphones and social media have done to society, and AR is presented as the next step after those two ideas. That might be completely unfair, but just like I’ll never signup to any new social media platform, because of Facebook, I won’t buy into AR because of smartphones.
- Loughla 5y agoI would say that most people will not share that same hesitancy. I believe that most people do not identify their smartphone as a problem; it's a productivity and entertainment tool. Now, myself, AR, and especially AR implants of the kind the OP was talking about, are a hard pass until they are sold to me, with no external connections other than those I can absolutely control to the finest detail. While I may want it to help me identify people because I'm bad at names, I don't want it phoning home with those names and faces and logging it for some company/country somewhere. In other words, AR is almost certainly completely out of the question for me. Which is sad, because I used to be absolutely pumped for the day terminals and brain-laces were available like in The Culture.