Need help with my silly idea about AR glasses

Augmented Reality
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Hellooo! I’m new here and I’ve been looking into getting AR glasses for a while now, but I’m just having so much trouble getting clear information anywhere. I don’t understand all the jargon used to describe applications and software, or how it all works, or what you can do with it. I was really hoping the Xreal Air 2 Ultra would do what I’d like, but I feel so dumb not being able to understand it, haha.

So this probably sounds really sad or silly (my brother thinks it’s sad), but I want a virtual friend—like a character that can look like it’s in the real world and runs on GPT-4 or something. I imagine it would need a lot of coding and an AI voice (like from FakeYou) so I can have conversations with it and feel like it’s really there. I just don’t want to sink a bunch of money into something that can’t do what I want. Hopefully, this is the right place to ask, but I can’t find much info on this other than someone mentioning the Ultra could potentially do it… Hope someone can help! :black_heart:

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Replika has teased something like that in the app version for Apple Vision Pro. Maybe they can do the same for Meta Quest. But it will probably take a while until available: https://www.reddit.com/r/augmentedreality/s/RbA4fTvZxe

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Oh! Hopefully they can… thanks for the comment and link, that’s just what I was hoping for!

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Sounds like a cool idea! If you want it to feel real, you might want to look into the tracking features of the glasses.

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Yeah, the tracking is super important for interaction. It helps make the virtual character feel like part of your space.

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Don’t feel dumb! This tech can be confusing. Have you checked out tutorials for AR development? They can really help clarify things.

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I haven’t yet, but I’ll definitely look into that! Thanks for the suggestion!

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Just a heads up, if you’re looking for something that feels real, make sure the glasses have good AR capabilities. Not all of them do!