Augmented Reality Gets Real

Ronald Azuma, Augmented Reality Team Leader at Intel Labs, declined to be interviewed for this article but provided a video of a presentation to an industry group last year in which he said that Intel had shown experimentally that workable light-field displays are possible, but are not yet commercially practical.

Thanks to robust research efforts, Azuma predicts progress will be made on that and on many other fronts in AR. In fact, he predicts consumer AR will become "as ubiquitous and invaluable as smartphones."

In the longer term, Azuma says, "AR could become the dominant platform and interface, moving us away from fixating on display screens."

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/9/238960-augmented-reality-gets-real/fulltext