there's a scene in Lain where a junkie is wandering around, wearing chunky AR goggles, haptic gloves and a backpack full of computer, festooned with cables, gibbering euphorically about how wired in he feels.

so the show portrays AR - at least in that setting - as almost degenerate.

of course, Lain has an unfair advantage in not really needing any kind of interface to live in the Wired.