Personally, I've always been far more interested in augmented reality tech (like PG) than virtual reality. The AR demo that Microsoft did (jump to 2:13) at their annual to-do a year or so ago really cemented my opinion on this. There's tons of good and important applications for both, but AR seems to have much more potential for enriching my daily life. Hopefully PG will create more interest in AR tech and its future. Google Glass was an unfortunate way to introduce the idea and, IMO, put people off a great idea by leading with some of its most intrusive applications. As my teenage son (pretty insightfully, I think) said: they should design and sell it as augmented imagination, not augmented reality or Google Eyeballs™.
Personally, I've always been far more interested in augmented reality tech (like PG) than virtual reality. The AR demo that Microsoft did (jump to 2:13) at their annual to-do a year or so ago really cemented my opinion on this. There's tons of good and important applications for both, but AR seems to have much more potential for enriching my daily life. Hopefully PG will create more interest in AR tech and its future. Google Glass was an unfortunate way to introduce the idea and, IMO, put people off a great idea by leading with some of its most intrusive applications. As my teenage son (pretty insightfully, I think) said: they should design and sell it as augmented imagination, not augmented reality or Google Eyeballs™.
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