I can imagine the augmented reality glasses turning our day -to -day world into something a little bit different. Just imagine the drive to work. You've got a heads -up display and whatever vehicle you're in now that goes with you and gives you just the information that you want all the time.
Speed, gas level, navigation, time, messages as they come in. All floating ahead of you in a heads -up display that you can customize the way you want. You look around as you're driving and you can see your path laid out, overlaid on the world in front of you.
You can see bubbles over buildings telling you what business it is and whether it's open or not. Maybe even a quick flash of whatever the special is today. Then you look around at the vehicles on the road with you and you can see bubbles over some of the cars, bubbles with information about the driver, about the type of car it is, if the driver is sharing or is mandated to share, driving record or risk assessment.
Or if you want to stick with the social media aspect, driver ratings! Especially over the Uber and Lyft and other drivers out there that would be mandated to have their stuff over them. Buses could have a little flag overhead indicating that they're about to stop and their route.
Better yet, speed advisory. So that everybody who subscribes to the speed advisory gets optimized in their drive to wherever they're going to minimize stopping. Like the internet was in the 1990s, this is all possible.
Sadly marketers will turn it into an advertising fiesta where we won't be able to escape any of it. And we'll see phantom zombies and sports stars, even crowds of the race that you prefer to see cheering you on or if you prefer the negative motivation flipping you off.
And then you get an indication that the battery is getting on your frames and then it all disappears and you're back to what you now think of as boring reality. The funny part is all of this stuff is available to you right now in the natural unaugmented world.
If you watch and listen you can pick up on clues that'll tell you almost all of that information. But it doesn't give you the same dopamine hit and it doesn't deliver a sense of control both to you and to those marketing to you.
Our creations around us overlaid on God's creation are very exciting already. Adding a digital aspect of floating information above it all and around it all is gonna make things real interesting. Buckle up!
