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by hirundo 1540 days ago
I saw an employee at a hardware store yesterday with a full sized iPhone strapped to his wrist like a watch. It's just such a convenient place for information that people are going to keep using it, whether we design products for that or not. I bet that people keep using virtual watches on their wrists in AR.
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it's actually already a pretty common method to place important information for the user on his virtual wrist in VR.

Examples: - Half Life Alyx - Lone Echo - Fallout VR

Not to mention the Wrist Link used throughout the galaxy in Star Wars.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wrist_link

And Fallout's PipBoy is pretty much a smartphone strapped to the wrist, just with a bulkiness and physical interface that seemed realistic when the first game released in 1997