Products · Broad category
AR
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with AR, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- VR and AR are much slower to navigate than traditional 2D interfaces2025-08-24
- Having to hold a device to use AR is unusable compared to wearable glasses2024-10-30
- AR software is unusable and phones are too weak for it2018-03-15
- Waving a phone around and touching the UI mid-air is awkward and tiring2017-08-29