This developer made an AR glasses demo that blocks ads in real life. Source: Stijn Spanhove

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@stspanho Replace that from photos from your gallery and it would be fire🔥No more ads, more memories.

@stspanho Very "They Live"

@stspanho 😬 @blackmirror

@stspanho Seeing those blocked ads IRL would annoy me instead.

@stspanho Missed opportunity. The app should replace the ads with random pictures from the wearer's genre of choice!

@stspanho Cool as hell 😌

@stspanho Should have used these colors

@stspanho Now just get it to replace the ads with your art or something you want to see and boom every display has content that you enjoy seeing. One day they will have to pay us in some way to have us “allow” their ads in our view unblocked.

@stspanho Ok cool but does it HAVE to be a bright red bitmap that's even more distracting than the ads? 😅

@stspanho What if we made ads far more noticable and irritating

@stspanho I might actually want the ads over bright ass squares everywhere

@stspanho Should be replaced with photos from your gallery. That would be ace.

@stspanho next

@stspanho blackmirror

@stspanho I don't see this as a good thing. I also see this as one step away from that episode of Black Mirror where you could block people form your life.

@stspanho Right up until he realises he'll make more money by charging advertisers to place their ads in those spots, in place of the OG ads 😂 In the future billboards will be installed blank.

@stspanho ok now do bright lights.

@stspanho Now we're getting somewhere!

@stspanho I love this so much #nologo

@stspanho holy shit this is incredible