Yeah, AR is going to find it’s first killer application in the next year or two. But I doubt it will come from an established company like Snapchat unless there’s some network effect that an AR-application needs to be successful.
>Yeah, AR is going to find it’s first killer application in the next year or two.
My money is on something like Nexar [0]. AR enhanced driving is going to save commercial fleet operators incredible amounts of money while we're still reliant on human drivers. Real level 3+ autonomy is still years away, but AR HUDs are going to be huge very soon, and the mapping data they collect will build the basis for those autonomous systems. MapBox just released their new Vision SDK that does deep learning based AR locally on mobile devices that is going to have some amazing applications too [1].
Immediately closed the article after clicking the link. What on earth is NYTimes thinking embedding half a dozen auto-play videos with sound in this piece?
