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.
