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Augmented Reality glasses have an "iPhone moment" where one moment they are barely around and the next, suddenly everyone has them. Gaming and mapping (especially interior maps of places where GPS sucks) are big draws, as are multi-user, shared realities in a particular physical space (where you can see and interact with objects that others can also see, in the same space, in realtime). 5G networks will prove essential in facilitating this.

Relatedly, "the cloud" will get more and more local and will likely entail having compute resources co-located with 5G cell stations in order to provide optimal latency for such applications.



  > suddenly everyone has them.
Yeah, sure. People are not sick of ads already.




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