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I've been extolling the educational (and entertainment) possibilities of lightweight portable A.R. ever since the first prototypes of Google Glass. - Imagine b

I've been extolling the educational (and entertainment) possibilities of lightweight portable A.R. ever since the first prototypes of Google Glass. - Imagine being able to look down at a breadboard, and have it overlay explanations, diagrams, realtime current flows, etc. - Anyone in the UNIVERSE who has ever had to learn card manipulation, juggling from a book or even a video knows how annoying it is to have to mentally reverse the picture in your head while trying to learn it. Imagine putting a person in front of you who is juggling (mills mess, box pattern, etc) and slowing it down to exactly see how to learn it. - Imagine being able to practice drawing by putting a model of any human in the center of your room, and walk around it as you sketch on actual canvas. - Imagine being able to head to the nearest open soccer field, and throw down a bunch of ninjas throwing ninja stars at you, and you have to physically duck and weave while running full tilt down the field. These took me a grand total of 10 minutes to think of. Anyone who doesn't understand the potential of AR simply lacks vision. (no pun intended)

makk 2y ago
> Anyone who doesn't understand the potential of AR simply lacks vision. I see your point.
readyplayernull 2y ago
Expanding on that, what would happen if we had immediate access to the knowledge required to perform any job? I like this prediction by Alvin Toffler: > People of post-industrial society change their profession and their workplace often. People have to change professions because professions quickly become outdated. People of post-industrial society thus have many careers in a lifetime. The knowledge of an engineer becomes outdated in ten years. People look more and more for temporary jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock Instead of "losing" jobs by AI (ok, some tasks of those will be replaced), there will be re-mixed jobs: dev-designers? medic-programmers? more and more specialized branches of every permutation.
hotstickyballs 2y ago
It needs to be much more mainstream (going down in cost and being more portable will help) but there’s already AR piano teaching and what not.

makk 2y ago

> Anyone who doesn't understand the potential of AR simply lacks vision. I see your point.

readyplayernull 2y ago

Expanding on that, what would happen if we had immediate access to the knowledge required to perform any job? I like this prediction by Alvin Toffler: > People of post-industrial society change their profession and their workplace often. People have to change professions because professions quickly become outdated. People of post-industrial society thus have many careers in a lifetime. The knowledge of an engineer becomes outdated in ten years. People look more and more for temporary jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock Instead of "losing" jobs by AI (ok, some tasks of those will be replaced), there will be re-mixed jobs: dev-designers? medic-programmers? more and more specialized branches of every permutation.

hotstickyballs 2y ago

It needs to be much more mainstream (going down in cost and being more portable will help) but there’s already AR piano teaching and what not.