>> However, they will be useful ways to provide information, like being able to click on a person you are talking to and see a public profile, which as someone in the bottom 20% of facial recognition (ie not technically face blind, but not far from it) I'd find useful. <<
It's also highly useful to people who can't identify emotions easily.
The problem is, other people often object to facial recognition or computer analysis; it creates a ton of consent and privacy issues which modern culture is ignoring.
Another issue is that all that stuff is designed for white men, and consequently, makes embarrassing mistakes like identifying black people as monkeys. So the accuracy is bad. That will cause problems if people rely on it.
In general, some types of labeling would be useful. For instance, a store could project sales, a restaurant could project menus, etc. This would be maddening if unavoidable, but convenient if you could select it: "I'm hungry. Show me menus on this block."
>> While this would allow somewhat seamless AR, it would look pretty crappy and, more importantly, wouldn't line up perfectly with touch or proprioception and thus would be at least mildly disorienting, so I expect some people will use it for limited purposes, I doubt it will ever see widespread use.<<
Disorientation is already a problem, so I suspect that would just make it worse. Many people would find it unbearable to have text and images floating in the air everywhere.
So that creates an accessibility issue. Anyone with visual, mental, or other factors making them intolerant to AR visual clutter would either be forced out of public space or harmed by going there.
Also, I think normal people grossly underestimate how much damage they're taking from environmental hazards. Most of them are unhealthy, and they know that, but they don't know why. They don't connect it to the fact that they've built a society which is terrible at meeting human needs.
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Date: 2021-11-13 07:26 am (UTC)It's also highly useful to people who can't identify emotions easily.
The problem is, other people often object to facial recognition or computer analysis; it creates a ton of consent and privacy issues which modern culture is ignoring.
Another issue is that all that stuff is designed for white men, and consequently, makes embarrassing mistakes like identifying black people as monkeys. So the accuracy is bad. That will cause problems if people rely on it.
In general, some types of labeling would be useful. For instance, a store could project sales, a restaurant could project menus, etc. This would be maddening if unavoidable, but convenient if you could select it: "I'm hungry. Show me menus on this block."
>> While this would allow somewhat seamless AR, it would look pretty crappy and, more importantly, wouldn't line up perfectly with touch or proprioception and thus would be at least mildly disorienting, so I expect some people will use it for limited purposes, I doubt it will ever see widespread use.<<
Disorientation is already a problem, so I suspect that would just make it worse. Many people would find it unbearable to have text and images floating in the air everywhere.
So that creates an accessibility issue. Anyone with visual, mental, or other factors making them intolerant to AR visual clutter would either be forced out of public space or harmed by going there.
Also, I think normal people grossly underestimate how much damage they're taking from environmental hazards. Most of them are unhealthy, and they know that, but they don't know why. They don't connect it to the fact that they've built a society which is terrible at meeting human needs.