curious, do you have research to back this up? I'd love a few links. I believe A.R. is an industry all its own but I'd like to know if consumers are confusing it with 3D. FYI, most of the great category killer A.R. domains have been regged for a while.
Well i can't say i have too much staistical data...some of it is small sample sizes and speculation, but here goes...
.. take a company like Topps, for example
(the baseball card company)
They came out with 3d Trading Cards
.. but it's all Augmented Reality... why?
Augmented Reality, by definition "is registered in 3D"
...it uses 3d models, 3d software, 3d pointing devices,
Augmented Reality though is much harder to push into the homes from a marketing perspective... i believe that it will be
introduced as 3d for the consumer to be able to be comfortable in understanding it .. they might even refer to it as "..some new kind of 3d" before they would remember Augmented Reality walking out of the store.
I looked into AR names and true indeed... many great names were gone... although i was able to grab two AR dandies that i thought were dead on PERFECT...
ARPresentation.com
ARPresentations.com
... but domains are basically built off of marketing... say what you will about searches, but people search what's been marketed... so while AR and Augmented Reality might be fine and cool and understandable to you and me and those who follow and live tech.. the everyday consumer is just a different beast and THAT'S who gets marketed... much easier, especially on the heels of this whole 3d craze to kick that door in as "3d"
As for 'Virtual" .. take a site like SecondLife.com for example...
... HUGE and very successful community ... all virtual, virtual chatrooms, avatars... etc...
... what's on their home page?
.. . "
3d Virtual world Community"
Check Google Keyword Tool for the following as well:
3d Chat Rooms - 3,600
Virtual Chat Rooms - 1,600
3d Games - 201,000
Virtual Games - 74,000
We don't even HAVE 3d chatrooms yet and 3d Games are fairly new
it's just better, quicker, easier, more marketable,and more understood than the others.
Not my rules... just an observation in human behavior