Raw LLM Responses

I’ve been saying it for years - once someone really cracks AR glasses - and by that I mean being light and wearable with a full-day battery and the ability to fully overlay things on the environment - they will take off. Not as a phone replacement, but to the degree that watches have become commonplace There are all kinds of ways in which consumers will find there to be a benefit - getting directions by having big arrows overlaid on the path, being able to have captions over people’s heads reminding you of what their names are, etc. Basically pretty much anything that people find useful about HUDs in games (assuming it’s all possible, of course) And companies will *love* them. Dynamic pricing is increasingly becoming a thing. Imagine if they could tailor it to the *person* rather than just the time of day. Imagine if billboards were just a giant QR code which caused your glasses to overlay whatever ad your ad profile suggested you were most likely to take advantage of. Shop window displays which showed you which products it thought you’d be most likely to want to buy. And so on “Hang on, Kimantha, this sounds utterly dystopian” I hear you say. Sure. But that’s not an argument for why it *won’t* happen. There’s plenty of dystopian things right now which would have been unthinkable a decade or two ago. We can say people wouldn’t like the privacy issues, but history shows that you can chip away at people’s privacy and they won’t care. There’s people in this very thread arguing that the best thing that could happen to the internet would be everybody having to do absolutely everything under their real name. Most people don’t care about cookies. Most people don’t think twice before uploading their biometric data to whatever site. Most people are used to everybody having a camera and filming in public. And CCTV in every shop and on every street corner Same with the advertising stuff. There will be a vocal minority who speak out against it, just like there is with the