I love the navigation video example. It's so much better than staring down at a cell phone. At the end of the day, however, it all comes down to style (looking at you, Apple Vision Pro).
I'd wish for arrows and directive lines overlayed straight at eye level at the actual turning points. Basically video game style.
In the video it's still limited to messages and map pictures in their dedicated box and makes me think the platform still won't be good enough to handle more complex overlaying.
It's so much better than staring down at a cell phone.
When the iPhone's App Store came out, there were a bunch of apps that were all about overlaying information on real-time real-world imaging. One of them was navigation where you'd hold your phone up (horizontally) and it would overlay the real world with lines and arrows. I wonder why that never really caught on.
There was another great one that was an SMS app that overlayed your conversations on the camera feed, so you could walk and text at the same time without falling into a mine shaft, or stepping in dog poo, or whatever. With today's technology, that could be just a toggle. Again, for some reason people didn't like it.
For navigation to work in VR, location services have to accurately know where you are and which way you're facing, which they don't. Compasses don't work in most urban situations because there's too much magnetic metal around you. Visual localization does work but the map has to be up to date.
