There is someone in a town that wants to kill you, and you want to kill them.
Does having call signs above your friend's head help you?
Does carrying extra gear help you?
Do little popups from an overworked person in HQ help you who is now managing like 300 troops?
Your eyes and your ears help you. Your spirt helps you. Give someone an iphone with things to click on and their attention is no longer in the real world. You have to be there, with the universe in focus and all of the gifts you were born with to get you through it. Though a hunk of body armor and a helmet helps too.
Poorly designed augmented reality will distract you. But well thought out and relevant augmentation might just save lives. Keeping things minimal and training soldiers to use the systems (and I mean clocking up serious hours, like they would have to) would help to minimize any risk distraction might introduce. Surely there exists some area between very densely packed information pouring into your display, and no information at all, where the cost of paying attention to it is outweighed by the benefit of being informed.
Does having call signs above your friend's head help you? Does carrying extra gear help you? Do little popups from an overworked person in HQ help you who is now managing like 300 troops?
Your eyes and your ears help you. Your spirt helps you. Give someone an iphone with things to click on and their attention is no longer in the real world. You have to be there, with the universe in focus and all of the gifts you were born with to get you through it. Though a hunk of body armor and a helmet helps too.
Augmented reality distracts from the real thing.