I guess I'm getting old. The more new tech I see the more I feel it adds zero value. Just new ways to entertain ourselves with games......I am getting old.
you do realize these are just a few highlights of the possibilities of AR right?
especially the menu thing, how is that a game?
i can tell you, one of the most infuriating things I've experienced, is going to try out a new resturant, finding something that looks good, ordering it and finding out that i just paid 32.00 for a plate of food, half the size of what you were expecting, meanwhile your wife/spouse who just wanted say, a simple place with a salmon fillet,have nearly a mini feast on her hands.
sure its a small issue to have, but being able to sit on, say, my kitchen table while planing our date night, and i could see the Actual dishes, with a somewhat accurate scale of size, would easily be able to help people out when finding a dish or plate they want to eat.
and again, this is some of the first generation AR software coming out. take this same idea(seeing a dish or plate of food) and apply it to anything else, and it can still be life changing.
ever ordered clothes online? imagine being able to stand in a mirror and literally see the clothing on you, simply by holding up your phone and looking at the screen, while still in your own home.
Or imagine painting a room in your house or looking for a new bed/couch or other peeve of furniture? being able to see exactly what the piece would look like in your room without having to pay for it, move it all the way in and realize its not something you really want?
at the end of the day. reading about something can only tell you so much, and even, like in the case of furniture, looking at it in a store setting can only tell you so much about the item. as anybody who has purchased individual furniture pieces no, things can look directly different when you get them home surrounded by your own furniture, rather then in the spacious set ups in store, surrounded by their hand picked items that quite literally, perfectly match and mesh with it.
and these are a few examples of things i could think of, using only the one example from the article, and with my limited imagination as well.
just remember people also said that APPs were just simple gimmicks in the beginning with the original iPhone, and that all they were is just simple games or had limited gimmicky purposes like a slightly junkier calendar or calculator, but look at them now, now you can literally run your entire life off of apps. everything from ordering groceries, to getting rides to and from work, to turning the lights on/off in your house, starting your card, running your business, monitoring the stock market, booking your flight and travel arrangements and even video chat with loved ones.
there is a whole lot of possibility here, you just have to literally imagine it.
