[st3ve445678]

Good, I don't think the masses are clamoring for AR glasses and if its not an amazing product, it would probably be a flop. Seems like current tech just isn't there yet to make these things tolerable to the average person.

[oblio]

> Good, I don't think the masses are clamoring for AR glasses

Oh, I think they are.

But they want the SF movie AR glasses. Aka regular glasses just with a ton of extra tech.

What I mean by this is that AR glasses look a lot like the next major OS.

Mainframes - minicomputers - workstations - PCs - laptops - tables - smartphones - (minor impact compared to rest) smartwatches/wireless headphones/earbuds - ... - AR glasses.

[ghaff]

AR as a principle assuming arbitrarily advanced and unobtrusive technology (and, perhaps, ignoring social pantopticon concerns) that works for most people even those without perfect vision would probably be pretty transformative. Look at anything/anyone and have basically a HUD overlaid with all sort of information.

I suspect we're a very far way away from that.

[WeylandYutani]

Yes what you describe is what I first saw in Deus Ex- a videogame from 2000. We're still far away from that level of tech.

As for the panopticon: it would be a veritable gold mine for hackers and the surveillance state.