ubiquitous Second Life AR overlay

Dickworld.

I think it's basically inevitable that we'll start viewing life through a HUD, besides some obvious downsides like popups/screamers, people playing candy crush while taking to you or just living in a fantasy world it could be very handy and have a lot of possibility for art.

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Your obvious downsides are much different than mine.
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That said, zork or shadowgate where you see the torch burning out would be amazing.

In future cyber dystopia, torch is you!

Yeah, there'll always be the idiots with 9 toolbars who click on every pop-up and then wonder why they get viruses, or the arseholes who are on their phones on a date.

We took different things away from those videos. ;)

What did you take away from it?

The first lady I had very limited sympathy for. I get that the stupid facebook games can be addictive, but nothing was forcing her to live in the nightmareworld she inhabited, and she was only freaking out when it went away. A simple GPS/traffic tracker layer would be all most people would actually use when commuting, not her Bonzibuddy/flybuys hellscape. Could you imagine tuning in to the deviantart layer, turning the whole world into a badly drawn edgy furry sex and sadness party. She could have just as easily been on the art deco, meditation and whalesongs or the Where's Wally channel instead.

The other one only really got bad when he was doing some mind control shit, so, don't build mind control into your cybereyes I guess. My guess was that he was going to record her having sex, then she was going to take a digital photo of his face and upload it to future-tinder so all the chicks that ever looked at him would immediately know he was a creep through facial recognition. But I guess he's Killgrave instead?

I thought the start was clever, using a game to get him to do yoga. Zombies Run! and for a while Pokemon Go both got me doing my excercise using a gaming reward structure.

You get the interface the first lady was using was the one she was using for her job, right? Saying that was her choice (ignoring that there are no choices) is like saying people can choose whether or not to use the internet. In this day and age you can't live without it. You can't apply for jobs, you can't communicate with the world, you can't handle half your business without going online. The vision you saw through that woman's eyes is that of the inevitable conclusion of the gig economy; A bunch of overqualified people spending the rest of their lives running errands for spare change while being distracted by a 1984 telescreen strapped to their face that can't be disconnected for fear of dropping further down the ladder.

And again in regards to choices, you're assuming that even ignoring all of the above that her participation in the system wasn't by law.
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If he can take control of her behavior in the moment what makes you think he can't change how she feels after it? So yes, more like Killgrave. We've given silicon valley access to our lives and data at a level that is allowing them to treat us like guinea pigs so they can suss out the rules that determine how consciousness works. Awesome for the advancement of science, not so much for us lowly sheep being led to the slaughter. Zuck thought he had a pretty sweet gig going until he got Trump elected by selling access to his monster for relative pocket change.

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I remember reading about a world with global AR in Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge about 10 years ago and realized AR is the way things are going to go. It will change so much in the way we live and work once this technology is mature. You can live in a box in the middle of nowhere, but wear your goggles and you've got a classy decorated apartment in Malibu with a deck overlooking the ocean, then flip a switch an you're at work in an office with all your virtual co-workers where you can collaborate face to face. I wonder how this will affect real estate.

I realized it's actually happening when I first saw the Winscape demo. When the head tracking VR thing started taking off with the rift, I thought you don't event need to make the fake windows or even paint your house now, it can all be virtual. The new Steam VR Home is just starting to scratch the surface.

Exciting times.