At some point in the future, when we are all wearing the mature version of those mixed reality glasses, the interior of your house or apartment will start to become partly virtual. There will be various features, both visual and functional, that will only exist while you are wearing your glasses.
We won’t even think about this as a thing, just as today, we don’t think about it as a thing that we have to get in the car to drive on the road. It will just be reality.
When that happens, I wonder how people will think about permanence in interior decorating. Will people generally settle upon a single motif for their home environment? Or will they think of these things as seasonal, or even vary there surroundings based on time of day or current activity?
The same room, after all, will be able to function at different times as a living room, playroom, bedroom, craft room, etc. We tend to have conventions for lighting, decoration, etc. for these different functional spaces. When we are able to change all of those things at will, will it be like switching to different phone apps? On your smartphone, you are always looking at the same screen, but you are not surprised when you are able to switch from one app to another on that screen.
Will our physical reality become virtually subdivided into reality apps?