AR seems like the obvious winner because it's easy to picture: just add digital stuff to what you already see. But that simplicity inflates its hype while VR gets underestimated because people can't quite imagine what it's for. The speaker argues VR might actually hold more potential than anyone thinks.
The thing most people will say is, I'm not that excited about VR, but I'm excited about AR. I think they're wrong. I think AR is a lot easier to understand, but I think people way overestimate AR and way underestimate VR. And here's the thing, AR is a lot easier to understand because it's not really a new use case, just a better way to experience what we already have. Your phone, your laptop, Google Maps in AR, you know, having little visuals mixed up with what you see around you. Mostly it is supposedly better way to experience experiences that we already have. So it's a lot easier to sit down and project yourself and say, well, there's billions of people using their phone. We can make the phone experience better in AR. So AR could be something used by billions of people. In the case of VR, people don't even know what VR is supposed to be for. Of course people say no because they have no idea what VR is supposed to be for. So I think the reason people are excited about AR is simply because it's easier to understand.
