[themstheones]

Your ad idea is stomach-turning. I see enough ads without having to subject myself to new streams of advertisement.

Conversely I'd happily install an app that put art over billboards. It would be nice to go to Times Square and feel like you're in the Louvre.

[mistercow]

>Conversely I'd happily install an app that put art over billboards. It would be nice to go to Times Square and feel like you're in the Louvre.

That's not going to happen for the foreseeable future. See http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...

[krrrh]

For me it was worth reading the whole post to understand that your idea of "forseeable future", and Abrash's idea of "a while" are really different from mine:

> Eventually we’ll get to SF-quality hard AR, but it’ll take a while. I’d be surprised if it was sooner than five years, and it could easily be more than ten before it makes it into consumer products.

[adam-a]

Happily this app has already been made http://laughingsquid.com/augmented-reality-app-replaces-outd...