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it seems we're headed towards a future where the phrase my vision is augmented won't just mean that someone's doing their best JC Denton impression and I'm not talking about nanotech either I'm talking about augmented reality or AR that thing that overlays graphics onto your physical surroundings to make them more functional in some way but Linus I mean the only thing I've ever used AR for is like playing with those little cards that came with my Nintendo 3ds this thing actually going to take off although the technology is still relatively new and developers are still working on rolling out applications for it to the masses more limited examples of AR have been with us for quite a while back in the early 1990s AR was mostly used in industrial settings to help with manufacturing processes but later became well known in the sports world when fans were introduced to the yellow line that marks a first down during a football game that is American football excuse me or much more infamously that glowing hockey puck with a comet tail that Fox decided was a good idea for some reason but after the development of open source ar code in the late 1990s and the advent of small powerful and highly integrated devices such as smartphones smart glasses and even Bionic contact lenses the AR market well it is really opening up with developers increasingly searching for ways to make your everyday world a lot more exciting so how exactly are they doing this for no one's surprise one way is with games now we've already seen AR smartphone games that encourage players to interact with the real world whether it's with like an included remote-controlled dude a door or ingress would be a great example of that as well but imagine like an AR board or tabletop game with virtual pieces that you and your opponent control with you know gestures regardless of whether the other player is right next to you or a thousand parsecs away safely out of arm ripping off range or if you're more of a PC gamer what about a pair of smart glasses that could connect to your rig to display something like a 3d map of the area your characters in on your desk while the action continues on your monitor and but speaking of monitors I mean would you even need one anymore we're already seeing AR devices such as microsoft's hololens that can throw a virtual monitor or TV screen onto a section of blank wall no projectors required and that can create new ways to design 3d objects instead of being confined to a keyboard and mouse smart glasses could allow you to create a 3d model of your project in real size that you can manipulate with your own hands let me they've done some great demos of this and when it's time to leave the house an a our windshield in your car could show you directions and street names or assist with braking and curves and a pair of AR glasses could analyze your surroundings and show you things like pictures of our room in a nearby hotel reviews of a restaurant you walk past the plentyoffish profile of that cute girl over there and if you want to know the forecast it could even alter the sky to show you what your environment will look like tomorrow when it's sunny alright so how long then before this stuff actually becomes part of our daily lives well there are some challenges to overcome building massive databases to store information about real-world locations well okay actually that's coming along pretty nicely but developing convenient wearable gadgets that people actually want to wear and making sure that mobile batteries can handle rendering 3d AR graphics without dying in 30 minutes without strapping a massive power pack to your face these things will probably take a while but I sure hope that I live to see the day when you can actually run around in a forest at night playing survival horror games speaking of running around at night and horror can you imagine if your website wasn't working in the middle of the night and you didn't have Squarespace with 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