For the near-term future, various sorts of display glasses will be how augmented reality and virtual reality are delivered, with smart phones as the computing platform. This is close, so close I can taste it. A pair of led/oled display glasses, that look close enough to regular sunglasses to avoid the nerd factor, are probably two years away from the mass market. That is when a lot of cool stuff will come to bear. Augmented reality, with different overlays available where different sorts of data are overlaid over your normal vision. Widgets and RSS feeds available any time, accessible via voice command or a flick of a finger on your phone's touch screen and visible as a translucent box in your vision. Reality tagging, life blogging, smart alerts, always-on GPS, real time instructional guides, tours, etc, its all coming and soon. In fact, the iphone and other advanced smart phones as they exist right now could deliver virtually all of this, its just waiting for the next firmware patch that will allow third party software development on the platform and for the eyeglass displays themselves to deliver all this via hud.
Smart phones are poised about where PC's were in 1980, right at the beginning of an explosive couple of decades of growth and innovation.
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