Ask HN: Will AR be the next computing platform?

[ibayramli]

Hey there, it seems that a lot of companies are working on AR/VR technology - Microsoft (Hololens), Apple (rumored Apple Glasses), Google, Meta, Magic Leap, etc. Do you think AR could become the next computing platform and be as big as desktop or mobile?

[armchairhacker]

I'm sure it will be, but the technology isn't there yet.

With AR/VR you can at least project a screen way bigger than any desktop, all the way to true immersion. Coding, design, social media, video games - most things you do on desktop, can benefit from VR.

But right now VR has a lot of issues: bulky headsets, low-poly because you need really fast framerate and double render, hard to track movements accurately, hard to control, and most of all hard to implement. It's a lot more complicated than desktop or mobile.

[consultutah]

The 3 big branches of the next 5-10 years of compute are 1) AI (technically ML, but ); 2) spatial/geospatial; 3) AR