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I'm not sure I agree. AR is like a HUD for your life. It didn't take off with Google Glass but I still believe it will improve one's current life; only a subset of folks want to truly escape virtually. VR is still very cool, but I can't see it being as widely adopted (or practical) as AR.

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> AR is like a HUD for your life. It didn't take off with Google Glass

Google Glass isn't AR. AR is not a limited look-up display, it’s 3-D overlay on your field of vision with awareness of location and, ideally, recognition of and interaction with objects in your field of vision. In the limit case it subsumes VR, since the generated imagery can replace as much or as little of the real imagery as needed for the application.

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