Will there be augmented reality ATOT?

[brainhulk]

This guy thinks smart phones are dead:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-the-smartphone-is-dead-you-just-dont-know-it/

I hope we still get to use imaginary avatars (insert talking butt avatar)...

 

[angminas]

Why would anybody want augmented reality ATOT? That'll never sell.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd say it's too early to say the smart phone is dead. And omg what a terrible site, I had opened the tab and could not even continue to type my post because it made my browser all choppy. Had to close it. Anyway, I could perhaps see the smart phone eventually slow down as far as number of releases and how often people upgrade, but I don't think that time is very soon and I doubt anything is going to replace it any time soon. Maybe the smart watch, but even those are kinda crap now and rely on having a phone anyway. Once they become stand alone, then maybe.

Personally what I'd like to see die is the whole idea that everything is being tied with an external service. Phones, gaming consoles, and now Windows 10 is trying to do the same with your PC. I think even newer cars are doing that now and I can almost guarantee self driving cars will. Stop it, I want my device to be in my full control and not rely on some external service. Sadly most people don't seem to see the value in having full control of your device so I think it will be a while before that changes.

 

[clamum]

Not much details in that article, explaining what he meant by that. Also I find it a little funny that the inventor of HoloLens, a Microsoft employee, is shitting on competitor Apple and saying the future of phones is a HoloLens-like device. LOL. On the other hand, I can totally see a future where people use some sort of contact lens device that is an AR device for what we use smartphones for today.

 

[deustroop]

This employee is an obvious shyster. "The phone is dead ", he says, and this is from a company that bought a phone but couldn't make it work? The company that failed in the phone business is now declaring that the business is dead?

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Graham Bell invented the phone and the technology has developed apace. It only recently became " smart". The phone will never die because of its simplicity and usefulness, neither thing does AR know anything about, and for the lack of which AR will die.