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Originally Posted by Theta Head
William Gibson has always been pretty good at predicting future possiblities.
I remember reading one of his books about 15 years ago, Virtual Light, in which he wrote about a pair of sunglasses that, when you looked through them, made objects - such as buildings - contain viewable tags with information such as location, which companies were in those buildings, and so on. It seemed like such a classic, outlandish sci-fi idea at the time, but 15 years later we have augmented reality.
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By the time of 'Virtual Light', VR head-mounted displays, and Heads-up augmentation, like in fighter planes, was already real and in broad use. Sounds like he just shrunk them.
Sounds like a story I'd like to read though.
ApK