Right now it’s augmenting reality with fake shit. Like you see the real world and can put non-real things in it. What I’d like to be able to do is be in a fake world and bring real world objects into that.
Like, say I’m in VRchat just sitting somewhere hanging out it would be cool if I could bring my drink, my food, my vape, etc into the game so I don’t have to fumble around looking for them with my hands. I haven’t found anything that does this though… :/
I think you will have the same problem as with 3D printers and accuracy. Like, people don’t realize their 3D printers are precision machines that are not accurate. There is a considerable variation in the actual zero point location of the tip of the nozzle on the bed. It simply does not matter that this is the case because every location is relative to the zero point.
This is why 3D printers are cheap as a hobby tool. When you start trying to design a printer where there are two extruder heads that move independently, you need to know absolute position for each print head and that position must be accurate at all times. This is a MUCH harder problem to solve.
In your VR headset, you are floating like how a cheap printer works. Your absolute position is irrelevant. If you want to incorporate external objects, you need to know absolute position. Computationally that is a larger problem, but also it requires a much more expensive sensory system, especially if you want to triangle location based on sensors mounted to the headset where the separation distance is small. I think you would really struggle to incorporate that and keep a half decent battery life to weight balance.