I used Google Glass in person for about 10 minutes, and after so much oh-ing and awing over the tech, for me it was pretty disappointing to experience. It felt like I was using a cheap Android system from 2012 overlayed onto reality and, uh, it wasn't that great. That being said, I only got to see a few basic apps in action, and maybe I didn't get the full tour of the hardware's abilities.
Personally, I think that VR will win out, even for AR applications (or maybe my semantics are incorrect). I can imagine a VR system that uses external cameras to mimic a person's natural field of view and overlays additional information in the process of displaying it. It seems like a more available route to a fully immersive "augmented reality" than the current glasses based prototypes.
> It felt like I was using a cheap Android system from 2012 overlayed onto reality and, uh, it wasn't that great.
Considering that Google Glass was created in 2013 with hardware smaller than a phone, thats actually exactly what they made! After Google Glass got canned, all of the talented engineers went to different projects. I assume their enterprise version is basically the same 2013 glass.
Judging any bleeding edge tech by its first prototype is not particularly useful. The point is not what Google Glass was, but what could've become with steady improvements.
VR cannot replace AR anytime soon due to some obvious safety issues. At the moment they are and will remain separate things IMO
Personally, I think that VR will win out, even for AR applications (or maybe my semantics are incorrect). I can imagine a VR system that uses external cameras to mimic a person's natural field of view and overlays additional information in the process of displaying it. It seems like a more available route to a fully immersive "augmented reality" than the current glasses based prototypes.