[justaman]

In the long-term, VR will be big. In the short-term, augmented reality will be the way to go imo. --Walking down the street during lunch time and the restaurants you pass each display their Yelp rating. Social media updates displayed over a person's head as a "thought-bubble"--

[penprog]

> In the long-term, VR will be big. In the short-term, augmented reality will be the way to go imo

augmented reality is a much harder problem to get right than vr (hmd vr that is)

[sayangel]

I disagree. I don't think AR is ready. Unless you want to type in what restaurant you're at so that your AR headset can give you that Yelp rating, I don't think we'll see what you're describing before VR hits the mainstream. You need to be capable of really fast + accurate computer vision to be able to passively get notifications regarding the world around you. The strides made to make VR possible will help AR in the long run.