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87 points NewUser76312 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.203s | source

Since Google Glass made its debut in 2012, there's been a fair amount of hype around augmented reality and related tech coming into its own in industry, presumably enhancing worker productivity and capabilities.

But I've heard and seen so little use in any industries. I would have thought at a minimum that having access to hands-free information retrieval (e.g. blueprints, instructions, notes, etc), video chat and calls for point-of-view sharing, etc would be quite useful for a number of industries. There do seem to be interesting pilot trials involving Hololens in US defense (IVAS) as well as healthcare telemonitoring in Serbia.

Do you know of any relevant examples or use cases, or are you a user yourself? What do you think are the hurdles - actual usefulness, display quality, cost, something else?

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geocrasher ◴[] No.44378979[source]
I am actively looking into an Oculus 3 for a virtual desktop environment that I can use portably, such as in an Airbnb, instead of lugging around a 43" 4K monitor. I'm also looking at projectors for this purpose. The context is remote work.
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1. trainerxr50 ◴[] No.44395939[source]
I am 2 months into having a Quest 3 and I absolutely love it but the resolution feels like it is probably 2 generations away still.

I am sure it is better than any CRT monitor I use to work on all day but my standards are just so much higher with how good monitors are.

I think if you got use to working on it though, you could manage no problem.