[underlogic]

First job for all day AR glasses is to kill off this nonsense. Superimpose the rounded up price and blur the advertising out. Also add the markup so the customer knows that $2 Arizona iced tea was bought for 35c.

[iLoveOncall]

Actual first job for all day AR glasses will be to spam you with ads everywhere.

[Nextgrid]

See Hyper Reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

[add-sub-mul-div]

That's not just a flippant reply. The fundamental purpose of invention in our society is no longer about benefitting our lives.

If they invented consumer travel to Mars tomorrow I'd have no interest. In 2024 it would be stupid to believe the customer experience would take the form of anything better than the Star Wars hotel.

[apantel]

The “fundamental purpose of invention in our society” has been for military advantage more often than not.

[johnnyanmac]

You can call it marketing if you're really cynical. What client has more money than the government, and the budget to spend in the trillions?

[Waterluvian]

I had always daydreamed of the inverse. A world where we get rid of road signs because the cars HUDs fill them in for us.

But there’s some grotesque likelihood to the idea that the world ends up positively littered and we use technology to filter it out.