With AR being a newly emerging technology, many implementations are very basic and have drawbacks. I myself will be using MOVERIO glasses. These glasses run android, and work by projecting a 0.43″ 720p screen at the user’s eyes to give the illusion of the tablet floating in the air in front of the user. With the small screensize, it’s very obvious that it’s difficult for any large amount of space in front of the user to be covered by the projected display.
Another limitation of the technology is that I will be reliant on the inbuilt camera, which has a very small field of view. A small camera field of view means that the headset will only “see” a fraction of the space that the user is able to see. This risks breaking the illusion as the user is able to see through the projected screen, and the camera itself isn’t able to see as much of the space it’s in compared to the user, meaning that the user may be able to see someone they wish to block out while the headset itself cannot see this person.
While these limitations aren’t the end of the world for the technology, and can be improved upon in future alterations of this product, in it’s current state the user experience with AR will be very temperamental.
