I've been frustrated on AR standards recently, there are huge volumes in the cell phone industry happening in 2018 yet I can't seem to find any standards.

In my search, the CTO Phil Keslin of Niantic commented( https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/po...ar-experience/ ):

"On the panel, Keslin had talked about one of the problems with AR – that it’s somewhat awkward to hold your phone up, the way you with AR games like Pokémon Go."

"“I can tell you from experience that people don’t do this,” he said, mimicking how people playing an AR game would hold their phones. “It’s very unnatural. It makes them look like a total doofus if they’re doing it for an extended period of time,” he added.

"“In Pokémon Go, the only time they really use it is to share their encounter with the Pokémon. To take that one picture, which is natural….Everybody takes a picture, and then they’re done. It’s not walking around the world with the phone in front of their face,” Keslin said.

"However, he did seem intrigued by the way that audio could be integrated into AR experience, saying that, “audio is different. You can hide that.”

This got me searching a bit more, on what is the best implementation of augmented reality sound, a lot of my recent testing basically showed that much of the new crop of AR is focused on the screen and either didn't do sound or the sound was messed up. I was searching some more and attempting to go over volumes (i.e. how many users have a ar capable sound system, and how many people use it), and what jumped out were the google map users on sound only (I assume while driving).

At first I was thinking, google maps isn't a AR sound application, but I pondered it more and I was hmmm: the application is gather complex 3d contextual data, merging that with complex stored data, then sending that to a cell phone, for a extremely nice sounding conversation. I use to be kind of fanatical on profesional rally driving, in that area there is this person that is quickly giving information to the driver. So i'm like, hmmmm ... AR sound is right now way more important by the numbers then AR imaging (though that's the sexy thing in the tech sites). I bet AR sound may have more legs to it then even AR imaging, from my personal life I'd want:
1) nice contextual music going while I'm riding at bart
2) contextual information as I am not as aware as I should be (some wacko got off the tracks in front of the train I was on yesterday)
3) contextual information of where I need to go, both inside and outside of building (i.e. a bum and body fluid avoidance route).
4) all the massive noise would be cut off (there's just dangerous levels of sound all the time on my trips into the city, both on bart, some guy doing some crazy leaf blower next to my bike, and the city sound just seems insane to me)
5) the ar would be smart enough to not cut out noise and/or comments when someone was perhaps within 5 feet (which I'd want to be adjustable), or shouting at me (ranked if they use my name)

I don't know, maybe I'm just old and insane, I really like this new tech but I just want it to work minus the fanfare?