[c0d4h]

I can't speak for VR, but AR definitively has a future.

You already see practical use of this technology with HUD-tech (Heads up display) in cars, but beyond that you'll find great applications for it within medicine/operations, transportation (directions), marketing (product information, authenticity verification), and the list goes on and on...

[tsimionescu]

Yes, AR has some potential as an industrial or otherwise specialized technology. It won't be revolutionary or change the world in any way, but it will probably improve several kinds of processes, a background tech.

VR is much more likely to either become the new TV or to die an obscure death, like 3D movies.

[kazen44]

VR becoming the new TV is highly unlikely because many people multitask while watching TV. this is very difficult to do with VR.

[tsimionescu]

I was thinking more of TV in the way it captured audiences in the 50s, 60s, 70s. You're probably right though that AR has a bigger chance of capturing something like the way TV is interacted with today (a background activity).

[pintxo]

You could multitask in VR, without even anyone noticing?

[tsimionescu]

How can you wash dishes while your entire view field is covered by some movie?

[pintxo]

I was more thinking about the "second screen" multitasking that's quite common. With VR, the second screen is like build-in.

[pb060]

3D movies will come back and die again. And again, forever