[bpiche]

You mention Gibson's original vision of cyberspace (maybe you mean a decker's hallucinatory tiaras), and also his locative art theme in one of the Blue Ant books - but I wonder if VR is closer to the AR goggles in Virtual Light. I never totally understood what they were capable of in that book. Perhaps a kind of Google image search for meatspace, that could sense ambient IoT devices?

[deepnet]

I like the idea of AR search in the visual field. Look at crowd and the AR highlights your friends, a book title in rows of shelves, or sidewalk money - that would be handy.

Sort of like the interface in Terminator when Arnie is looking for matching clothes.