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In spite of all the negativity, I'm super excited about the future of AR.

- being able to see in extremely wide spectrum bands compared to human eyesight

- being able to see in higher dynamic ranges than the human eye

- being able to magnify little details and thus see with a higher spatial resolution than the human eye

- all of this while enhancing your field of view with lots of other interesting information

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None of these seem like things any company is actually working on…? Or at least no rumor has ever mentioned.

(Yes thermal cameras exist, but not really as an AR overlay)

Microsoft's IVAS is a military version of the Hololens 2 with night-vision/thermal.

"The IVAS adds night-vision and thermal imaging sensors to the usual HoloLens heads-up display, and is ruggedised for military use."

https://www.army-technology.com/news/us-army-to-work-with-mi...

Steve Mann has build a HDR welding helmet[1] some years ago as a proof of concept. But I haven't seen any consumer products going in that direction yet. Closest I have seen is people strapping IR lights to their Quest2 to get night vision (works due to Quest2 cameras not having the typical IR filter) [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygcm0AQXX9k

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqR_1DyZejo

aren't these all reliant on scientific breakthroughs? they're scifi features that we're unsure we'll achieve. promising direction to pursue though

edit: minus IR/thermal

All of these are possible, individually, with current technology (e.g. "being able to see in extremely wide spectrum bands compared to human eyesight" means IR/nightvision cameras), but it's currently cost-prohibitive to combine them all into one device

A lot of camera technology that was cost prohibitive a few years ago is now in every smartphone. Remember 4k video cameras costing >$100k?

...That's exactly GP's point, yes.

You've never used a thermal camera?

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