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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9258533" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>The trouble is you'd need a technology decades of maturity beyond what we're looking at currently. </p><p></p><p>Apples' offering is $3500 and not really suitable for everyone to use. It also means you can't really RP because you have a weird-ass thing on your face. Very few gaming groups are so wealthy that every member can casually afford a $3500 device.</p><p></p><p>It'll be 10+ years (maybe 20+) before we're looking at actual glasses-style devices with similar capabilities. Then you'll need mature software as well, to reliably project the battlemap so all users can see it. And for the map to be "interactive" and "animated", someone would have had to work hard to script those elements (at a minimum), adding further load to the DM, unless you're just buying in an adventure which someone else has done that for - which is probably not going to be cheap!</p><p></p><p>I don't think many kids will be able to afford this. Also it makes you look like a total dork, which I don't think is going to really fly with the under-30s. This is more of a middle-aged bore's toy something than the "kids today" are going to be running around with, at least for probably the next decade.</p><p></p><p>I don't think being able to see people wearing them is going to stop you getting rear-ended or, as a pedestrian or cyclist, run down by people using these things in cars - something people are already doing, though it's obviously against the law. Hopefully severe enough penalties can deter such usage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9258533, member: 18"] The trouble is you'd need a technology decades of maturity beyond what we're looking at currently. Apples' offering is $3500 and not really suitable for everyone to use. It also means you can't really RP because you have a weird-ass thing on your face. Very few gaming groups are so wealthy that every member can casually afford a $3500 device. It'll be 10+ years (maybe 20+) before we're looking at actual glasses-style devices with similar capabilities. Then you'll need mature software as well, to reliably project the battlemap so all users can see it. And for the map to be "interactive" and "animated", someone would have had to work hard to script those elements (at a minimum), adding further load to the DM, unless you're just buying in an adventure which someone else has done that for - which is probably not going to be cheap! I don't think many kids will be able to afford this. Also it makes you look like a total dork, which I don't think is going to really fly with the under-30s. This is more of a middle-aged bore's toy something than the "kids today" are going to be running around with, at least for probably the next decade. I don't think being able to see people wearing them is going to stop you getting rear-ended or, as a pedestrian or cyclist, run down by people using these things in cars - something people are already doing, though it's obviously against the law. Hopefully severe enough penalties can deter such usage. [/QUOTE]
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