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Ask HN: Is the killer app for AR glasses a guardian angel to keep you alive?
Just like a smartwatch can save your life by monitoring your health (e.g., your heartbeat), maybe AR glasses can also save your life by monitoring your environment?
For example, AR glasses could stop you from crossing the street when there is an oncoming car, regardless of what the traffic lights indicate.
As another example, AR glasses could stop you from walking alone at night or passing through a high-crime area.
- pvg 2y agoA guardian angel to keep you alive is perhaps the killer app for AR/VR glasses. The AR glasses might even be optional.
- theGeatZhopa 2y ago[flagged]
- Fricken 2y agoApple, Meta, Google and Snap have hired the best minds of our generation to come up with a killer app for AR... they got nuthin'
- theGeatZhopa 2y agoBecause it's difficult to find a problem for a solution :) And, may be, the best brains of our generation aren't the best brains available on earth..? The older generations are much more profound in a lot of things - also, not to be blinded by the lAIght or so.. let's see what the future will bring us. May be a problem for a solution will be found.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- unsupp0rted 2y agoTo me the killer app is when the Guardian Angel says "don't eat that" or "don't buy that: it's full of dangerous chemicals".
- solardev 2y agoThe real killer app would be the Guardian Demon, which overrides all the good stuff. "Mmm... doesn't that ice cream look SO good?!" "It's 3:30 and you've already worked so hard. That bottle is calling your name." "Yeah, she might be a bit crazy, but YOLO..."
- jollyllama 2y ago> AR glasses could stop you from walking alone at night or passing through a high-crime area Oh dear, this is going to be controversial.
- nilawafer 2y agohopefully your brain provides this function already!
- solardev 2y agoAs Darwin once said, natural selection is that sublime mix of random mutations and expensive glasses.
- ompogUe 2y ago> For example, AR glasses could stop you from crossing the street when there is an oncoming car, regardless of what the traffic lights indicate. Not sure this is the best example: Maybe turning off the AR and using your eyes and ears would work better. Killer app for me is having the manual about an item I use embedded in a qrcode on the item itself, instead of in a paper book or online. (Not anti-AR by any means - have been working with it/thinking about it since ~1998)