When I think back to earlier Apple HyperCard example of using hypertext before the WWW and its search engines was available you just knew that way of researching information was about to radically change. AR was suppose to elicit increased reality with demos linked to various web pages when conducting fact finding, education, and shopping as examples. I haven’t noticed that Apple marketing has focused on any of that, instead VisionOS examples are not as convincing as they could be. But then that thought of everything seen via the WWW is possibly premature on what to expect from a new platform device.
Although the lines are blurred, I view AR as mostly (but certainly not limited to) being a tool to help some professionals (surgeons, architects, industrial plant inspectors, insurance adjusters, mechanics, etc.) solve problems in the course of their work. And also regular people performing tasks they're involved with. As opposed to VR, which,
as just one example, lets users experience new places as if they were actually there in real life, such as the Louvre, walking through the Colosseum, participating in a Formula 1 race, running the San Francisco Marathon along with 20,000 other runners, exploring the Pyramids in Egypt, exploring the Lascaux cave paintings in France going back around 20,000 years, watching a live football/baseball/soccer game as if you were actually in the stadium, etc, etc.
I see Apple (and AVP developers)
greatly opening up the above possibilities.