I still don't understand why so many of you think AR is the future. I have AR & VR in my Vision Pro. I never use the AR, and I hate apps that don't go full immersive.
1) Work. If you're going to use these to do work, with a virtual monitor, then why do you need AR? I find that using AR in the AVP is distracting and confusing. My coffee table or my bed or my kitchen or a chair or my dogs get in the way of the view. To use AR in this manner would require a clean, uncluttered space that compliments the visual of the virtual monitor. That doesn't protrude or pass through it. So when I'm working, I go full VR, immersive environment, and suddenly nothing in the real world matters. It doesn't matter that my office is a mess, I simply go full immersive to a clean, calm environment.
2) Movies? Same as my work. Why do I need to see anything in the physical space in front of me in order to watch a movie? In fact, they are distracting. The immersive environments are much better for media consumption. On an airplane, what advantage would AR give you? In VR, I can basically forget I'm cramped in a little seat on a flying tin can and feel like I'm fully immersed in a large theater watching the show.
3) Scrolling the web/social media, etc. Again, what purpose does AR serve for this function? In what way are they enhanced by AR? If the answer is that you wouldn't feel disconnected from the real world, then isn't just using your phone good enough? When I'm in an immersive environment, I can more singularly focus on what I'm doing, and that's the advantage of immersion. But just seeing a floating window over my living room that is not constructed to accommodate a virtual floating monitor? Just clutter.
4) AR overlays while driving: How often would you really do this? What do you need to see that would require AR glasses on all the time?
5) AR walking down the street: Walking directions? OK, every 500 feet you need to get a prompt to turn left or right. You'd really want to wear glasses just to get prompted every 500 feet or so? My iPhone already dictates turns in my Airpods.
6) AR billboards or information? This would rely on third parties producing content that would more than likely quickly become advertisments: Hey! Try this restuarant! Wings are on Special! I don't understand the use case here. To recieve advertising?
7) Walking a museum: This use case I could understand. I'll grant this one. But how often would you use it? For example, I can wander a bunch of museums, in VR, sitting in my living room. That's cool. But with AR I'd have to physically go to each museum.
8) Teleprompter: This I can see, if you're a lecturer or giving a presentation to an audience, these might eventually work well.
9) Live sporting/concert events: giving you stats, replays etc, while you're at an event. But in VR, I can be taken right onto the field (not sitting in some 300 level seat with a terrible view) and still get the overlay of stats and replays.
I guess I'm curious to know how those of you who think AR is the future really envision using AR.
