Youtube Tutorials -> AR applications: Passive v. Proactive Teaching tools

One of the coolest advancements of Augmented Reality is the gap between learning tactile tasks in-person and virtually will shrink dramatically. This is because virtual communication is so much more effective in 3D, because 3D visualization is how humans natively understand the real world.
Take a look at this video below:
The proliferation of Youtube tutorials enabled anyone to learn just about anything. But, while you can learn anything on Youtube, the quality gap between learning in-person and learning via a Youtube tutorial is still significant enough that most people would prefer the face-to-face instruction. This is analogous to learning in a 300 person lecture hall versus 1 v. 1 tutoring. The ability to receive personalized, detailed instruction is paramount to AR becoming the go-to teacher in the virtual world.
Check this out:
This is where AR shines. AR will enable live and proactive instructional tools which enable the student to take cues on what they’re specifically doing wrong at any moment in time. Billiards is the good medium to begin developing instructional tools because billiards is played on a 2D plane. Building 3D instructional tools — such as what would be needed to build a virtual ceramics teacher — will require advanced computer recognition and tracking tools, which is part of what we are currently working on for Asteroid.
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