[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.