I think increasing the awareness of augmented realities is a good idea. In a world that is becoming increasingly fast paced, augmented realities provide an element of ease to our busy lives. However, on the flip side of that there are drawbacks for increasing the use of augmented realities and that is they take away the real world experiences. Meaning that with the increasing use of augmented realities, more and more people will be looking at their phone screens and or devices instead of looking out at the real world. It takes away certain aspects of the real world that we might not be able to experience in a couple of years. However, even though they do hold some drawbacks, augmented realities have the ability to change society. With all technology becoming more advanced it makes sense that augmented realities are getting introduced into our societies, and even introduced in non expectant places like our education system. In terms of how it will change our society, more specifically I think it will be able to make big changes in our education system. Where there are no elements of fun and adventure in our education system, it provides those elements. I personally think it will make teaching easier and more efficient.
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Thanks! Did you find any particular examples of AR that might be useful in, say, education?
Yes! http://www.edutopia.org/blog/augmented-reality-new-dimensions-learning-drew-minock This is a great article by a 5th grade teacher named Todd Nesloney in Texas. He includes how teachers can implement augmented reality specifically into their syllabuses. It’s a great read.