Maybe. I think that AR has the potential to be far more pervasive and unescapable. AR makes the entire world a canvas, and the possibilities of public ridicule

Maybe. I think that AR has the potential to be far more pervasive and unescapable. AR makes the entire world a canvas, and the possibilities of public ridicule and negativity are endless. Especially if we as a society embrace and then “require” AR devices like we did with cell phones—-required not so much by law or policy but by societal norms and expectations. Imagine growing up as a child in an AR environment. Imagine what bullying could look like then—nobody would need to look at their phones to see the gossip about you, they could just look at you and see it painted all over you. This is going to fracture us completely as we begin to paint our internal filter bubbles onto the real world around us building deeper feedback loops. People will look at things and truly see different realities. Perhaps the dystopian AR reality will actually drive more VR addiction as people try to escape their shitty realities.