[ako]

I don't think AR has flopped so far, but when it's used well it's not perceived as AR.

For example, my car has a rear camera, which overlays where you are going depending on the position of the steering wheel. This is reality augmented, but since it feels so natural, nobody thinks about this as AR.

[callalex]

I disagree that the steering guide lines on a reverse camera are AR. A key aspect of AR is that it is environment-aware. An image overlaid on a video is not actually aware of “reality” at all.

[BoorishBears]

The lines turning with your steering wheel is slight awareness of the environment, namely the direction your wheels are facing

Some go a bit further and overlay imaginary barriers based on the distance of objects near you: https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/img/gvHEEq5aZgDanoLARwsAzNN66Qk...

But yeah, in general this application doesn't have the kind of impact people are talking about when they say mainstream AR.

[mason55]

Yeah the steering guides are not really AR but the rectangles that pop up on the thing you’re about to hit and turn colors based on how close your definitely are AR.

[sheep-a]

I'm not convinced... to me AR is an environment you can interact with or it interacts with the environment. Some lines drawn on a screen. meh

[ako]

You’re interacting: you have your controller, the steering wheel, and you are manipulating an object, the car, and the computer inside your car is using sensors to determine how you are performing inside your environment, and providing you with virtual information combined with real world information so you are better equipped to do your job, than without the additional information augmented to you reality.

[ldng]

Or you could see it as concrete real world baby step ? It's AR for the car to interact with, through a steering but still interaction.

I, personally, find that more interesting than VR toy/game I've seen so far.

[Paraesthetic]

I mean.. technically everything in AR is lines drawn on a screen right?

[closeparen]

The head-up display is 1940s tech [0], I don't think we can call it "AR."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display#History