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I think it has been tried unsuccessfully many times. There is even a Silicon Valley episode about it. Certainly it does not fit the "non-obvious" criterion.

Apart from gamers, people just don't want it.

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I would disagree. Before iPhone, all the phone vendors and telecom vendors tried to create their own sketchy "platform".

Also I would say "apart from gamers, people just don't want it" is the same reaction as people who didn't understand what a "horseless carriage" would be used for when it was invented.

Aside from gamers, shopping apps are starting to use AR to preview items in one's own house. I think the IKEA app currently does this for furniture.

This might be somewhat niche area though.

I'd be interested in something for a desktop. Currently, I have 3 monitors and having an extra 2 at the market open would be perfect then put away the headset after 30 minutes and just watch the market. If anyone has a recommendation.

Would those additional monitors be used for web based access or would you want them to directly connect to your machine? If the former, you could pick up a mixed reality headset and spin up web browsers and use them as additional "monitors". Something like this: https://quipscom-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/g/personal/chris_caru...

Chris, thanks for this. I completely missed this comment. I will look into that as an option. Right now my trading platform is an old windows app as most stock trading applications are and the web browser version doesn't allow all the features, but this looks like something I will have to try.

If you end up seeing this, which headset is this?

I thought that too(just for gamers) except I think Apple has some early examples of AR up its sleeve that have convinced it that it is the next big thing. Should be fun to see.

Another thing is half of the planet are "gamers." If you target gamers only your max addressable market is pretty good.

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