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NewDad907 t1_j62ib3k wrote

Reply to comment by MrFoxManBoy in HoloLens AR actually makes soldiers less lethal, soldiers hate it | Report comes after Microsoft lays off various VR/AR employees by BlueLightStruct

A Google Glass-like device with a small lumbar battery pack might work.

I’m a nobody and I can come up with better ideas. Why aren’t people paying me for my ideas? It’s a constant brainstorming session here upstairs.

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DarthBuzzard t1_j630ou0 wrote

> A Google Glass-like device with a small lumbar battery pack might work.

Well that has nothing to do with AR tech, so it would be performing a different function at that point.

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shaggy9c t1_j635ucq wrote

How is that not AR tech?

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DarthBuzzard t1_j638inu wrote

Google Glass is a 2D HUD. It's as if you were to take a smartwatch and put it on your face - that's the limit of the functionality you can provide.

AR deals with actually overlaying information into the real world.

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shaggy9c t1_j63ejfb wrote

Really? Last time i checked (quite some time ago) it was anything that augments reality . Even 2D HUD

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DarthBuzzard t1_j63fktb wrote

Other than Google, I've never heard of anyone in the AR industry try to classify Glass as AR.

The usecases, the tech, the hurdles that have to be crossed are just fundamentally different. It's a bit like a calculator versus a computer. They might technically both be calculators, but a computer is exponentially more complex with entirely different usecases (and at a greater magnitude).

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shaggy9c t1_j63unew wrote

Apple and also the HoloLens or how it was called that was forgotten few years ago

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DarthBuzzard t1_j63wtco wrote

HoloLens is actual AR, and Apple only ever calls ARKit-related features AR, which is true - that's mobile AR.

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