[hctaw]

AR and VR are both solutions looking for problems today. The technology is already there for a killer app but no one has figured out what it is yet.

I think AR/VR is that it's being used like film was in the early 20th century. There are obvious technical challenges to overcome, but what it lacks is an industry of creators and auteurs to define new forms of art. The mistake is that the revolution will be driven by artists working out of garages and warehouses, not VC funded startups that only focus on technical challenges trying to corner the markets.

[flukus]

> AR and VR are both solutions looking for problems today. The technology is already there for a killer app but no one has figured out what it is yet.

For me the killer apps would be replacing my monitor/TV/tablet/etc and providing an IRL add blocker. The technology for that is definitely not there yet.

[jelling]

An interesting thought but unlike film one cannot arrive in a new town and put on a show for tens to hundreds of people with one piece of equipment. Both the gear and the physical space required are serious bottlenecks.

[hctaw]

My point of the analogy is that film was an entirely new medium for creators a century ago and while the projector and camera manufacturers came up with the idea of a cinema, it was the artists that made something worth showing.