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This feels like a technology that will be ‘ready’ in ten (twenty?) years, but to dismiss it now a) feels unimaginative and b) precludes that from ever happening.

Do I want to wear big goggles? No. Do I, one day, want a device that can magically project anything I want on to my field of vision, and for it to be as realistic as my actual vision?

Hell yeah I do! And we can’t get there unless we go through the ski goggles phase. So, here we are.

I feel the same way about people complaining that the headphone jack was removed. ‘The phone is thin enough!’, they say. No it isn’t! My god where’s your imagination. The phone is good enough when it’s wafer thin and I can have it protein-printed on my arm or whatever.

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The first time (I am aware of) people experimenting with immersive computing experience was in the nineties CAVE @ ncsa [1]. It has not really taken off and I don't think its down to device specifics.

It is possible that there is a non-linear threshold type thing (Like LLM's requiring billions of parameters before doing a decent imitation of human language) that has prevented (thus far) making this technology really interesting.

[1] http://www.visbox.com/products/cave/

I alreday feel exhausted when I walk my town because there's so many information to process: front of shops, advertising, road signs, people, cars, bikes, nice buildings,... If I had to add yet antoher layer of information on top of that, it would be exhausting.

Now, if I was someone who works in construction, I'd be happy to have glasses that add the position of eletrical wire in the wall where I'm going to drill a hole :-)

Real AR glasses could also edit out the existing distracting information, like an ad blocker. I guess technically that would not be AR, but DR (diminished reality).

If the headsets are good enough you could actually use them to remove information from your view as you walk instead of adding more to it.

The iGlasses could just as easily block information making a walk through downtown Manhatten look like a stroll through the woods. Use at your own risk :)

> I alreday feel exhausted when I walk my town because there's so many information to process: front of shops, advertising, road signs, people, cars, bikes, nice buildings

Ok, but you're certainly atypical in this respect.

These glasses for industrial purposes have already existed for a number of years

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