Blogmented Reality

Finally, I’m once again making good on my promise of terrible terrible puns as we discuss heads up displays for AR and how, for now at least, you’ll only be seeing good ones in the AR Fiction Weekend posts. Here, have a slideshow about it.

Just like last time I posted a slide show, you can find a lot more supplementary material at the original site I found the sideshow embedded in. But here’s the general gist: heads up displays like the kind you see in Dennou Coil or other really cool AR fiction are still a long way out. But they AREN’T held back by unsurpassable technical hurdles like flying cars or jet-packs. Instead, most of the basic traits of wearable, functional, dare I say fashionable, AR glasses have been shown to work in proof of concept products like the ones you see in that slide show. The question is how long it will take to integrate those traits into something that can be made available at a reasonable price. I’ve seen 2015 thrown around a lot as a date for that, which seems about right to me.