> AR has no use case. None. Feel free to name one.
Automatic translation of signage as you walk through a foreign-language environment.
Automatic translation of signage as you walk through a foreign-language environment.
But I knew World Lens could do this since 2014.
I've taken it overseas on my phone and never used it.
I've never seen anyone use it in two+ years living in a country with a different script.
You think this is useful, but it's not. When do you walk down a street and really not know what's going on?
But if you need to hold your phone in front of you and squint at the screen like and idiot, nobody will use it.
So the use-case is real and valuable, it's just not achievable on a phone, it needs to be a socially acceptable wearable AR device.
It will only be able to do what current technology allows. IE Magic Lens / Google's Product
AR is not AI, it won't magically solve complex problems.
As I stated I have been in other countries with the tech, I have not been embarrassed to use it. I have never used it. Neither has anyone I have been with. In real life these situations just don't present themselves.
Have you used the current tech? I fail to believe you haven't because you are too embarrassed every time, if it's "very useful in almost any setting or environment".
1) Simple translations that google translate or similar can do sufficiently well. This exists, is useful in many scenarios, such as reading signage or posters and other stuff, but I never use it IRL because I don't want to walk around looking through my phone all the time. And for traffic signs, I obviously can't go throuh all of that while driving. AR can solve this when the tech is small enough. It's not so much a case of that I'm too embarrassed to pick up my phone, it's more that the expected value of any single translation is very low, but taken all together I'm missing a lot of information, some of which could be useful.
2) Complex translations of documents and such. I have tried google translate for this but the text is typically both too complex and also can't fit on the screenspace so it never manages to get the whole paragraph to translate. Some of this could theoretically be solved with a super high res AR device with a great translation AI, but obviously then a similar tech on my phone would also do the trick.
Do you think it would be useful to have had AR glasses to do this while walking down the street?
World Lens was free on Google Glasses, there are almost no reviews though, here's one of the few not ads -