I think it's going to be AR glasses. The major companies are going to be releasing them in a few years, and that will make them mainstream. Especially once another few years have passed and the price starts coming down. And I think that the more people that have them, the more it's going to change things.
First there's the obvious things - you'll be able to read and send emails using nothing but voice commands and gestures, and you won't even have to look at your watch to do so, let alone take your phone out of your pocket. But that's not that different to today.
I think you'll also be able to share ID data with other people, which will allow you to set reminders for when you come in to proximity with someone else.
You'll be able to translate foreign text just by looking at it.
Navigation will be easier in that directions can actually be overlaid to what you can actually see. You won't have to look at a screen, but will instead have virtual signposts and arrows drawn on or above the street.
Again, that's just an extension of what you can already do. I mean, that last one you can do exactly like that except you have to be holding your phone in front of your face, which isn't ideal.
But then we get in to things that will change the world more. Once you've got a pair of AR glasses, you don't really need a TV. You can just nominate a wall and have that be your TV. That would work for 3D films and TV, too. You could probably do away with a monitor for your computer, as well.
You can have virtual meetings. Like a zoom call, but instead of looking at someone on a screen, everybody can have an avatar with either their own face/head (if they have some kind of camera set up), or some CGI creation like a memoji or a cat filter.
And I think it's going to change the landscape even more than that. The biggest one will be advertising. I think that billboards will start to stop having actual adverts on and will instead have orientation markers which your glasses recognise and which makes them connect to an ad agency's server which checks your profile and then delivers personalised ads.
Shops will be able to display offers, new products, etc. in the window with minimal effort and cost.
Public transport hubs will be able to display up to date information on virtual boards for less cost than any other method of display.
I think it will fundamentally alter at least urban landscapes. It won't make them unrecognisable, but I think it'll alter them in the same way that, say, the invention of cash machines did, or the phasing out of phone boxes. Except that features that utilise AR glasses will be must more widespread than either of those.
What upcoming technology do you think is going to have the greatest impact on our everyday lives?
First there's the obvious things - you'll be able to read and send emails using nothing but voice commands and gestures, and you won't even have to look at your watch to do so, let alone take your phone out of your pocket. But that's not that different to today.
I think you'll also be able to share ID data with other people, which will allow you to set reminders for when you come in to proximity with someone else.
You'll be able to translate foreign text just by looking at it.
Navigation will be easier in that directions can actually be overlaid to what you can actually see. You won't have to look at a screen, but will instead have virtual signposts and arrows drawn on or above the street.
Again, that's just an extension of what you can already do. I mean, that last one you can do exactly like that except you have to be holding your phone in front of your face, which isn't ideal.
But then we get in to things that will change the world more. Once you've got a pair of AR glasses, you don't really need a TV. You can just nominate a wall and have that be your TV. That would work for 3D films and TV, too. You could probably do away with a monitor for your computer, as well.
You can have virtual meetings. Like a zoom call, but instead of looking at someone on a screen, everybody can have an avatar with either their own face/head (if they have some kind of camera set up), or some CGI creation like a memoji or a cat filter.
And I think it's going to change the landscape even more than that. The biggest one will be advertising. I think that billboards will start to stop having actual adverts on and will instead have orientation markers which your glasses recognise and which makes them connect to an ad agency's server which checks your profile and then delivers personalised ads.
Shops will be able to display offers, new products, etc. in the window with minimal effort and cost.
Public transport hubs will be able to display up to date information on virtual boards for less cost than any other method of display.
I think it will fundamentally alter at least urban landscapes. It won't make them unrecognisable, but I think it'll alter them in the same way that, say, the invention of cash machines did, or the phasing out of phone boxes. Except that features that utilise AR glasses will be must more widespread than either of those.
What upcoming technology do you think is going to have the greatest impact on our everyday lives?
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