ummm.... bandwidth?

mainly the equipment of the person who's receiving it really, i suppose. obviously, you can't transmit simsense data to someone without a sim module, for example.

One of the examples they give for "spam zones" includes simsense porn. Apparently the bandwidth is significant.

My idea of an "ARO marker" was something like an RFID, which obviously limits you somewhat.

That's what confused me about RFID, ARO seems to do more than I realized.

What would be the point of that? Might as well use regular paint. Of course I might be misunderstanding what you're getting at.

If you tagged the wall with Spray'd AR but didn't want the AR component visible I guess you could either not drop the ARO tag or possibly program said tag to only respond to a limited group of comlinks.

If you didn't want the paint to show up you'd need to use some sort of clear paint or something, but you might as well just use an RFID tag and forget the paint.

If you mean somehow rendering the paint invisible to someone using AR then IMHO no. AR overlays the real world, so you can still see the real world regardless of AROs, popups and other windows in your vision.

You're assuming the Longshoremen want to upgrade their technology to make the job go faster and more efficiently.

"Why wouldn't they want to go faster and more efficiently?" you ask?

Let me put it this way: they're a union, and there's a reason they currently use a clipboard and a piece of chalk.

Signal 1, IIRC (I'm at work) gives you a range of 40 meters. Indoors, 40 meters is overkill in most places for anything you might want LoS to. Outdoors, that's a decent chunk of a block away.

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How about replicating that scene from the beginning of Black Hawk Down? Spray'd-AR a big X on the top of a car, drive it to the target building, and park it outside. Easier for drones to pick up if it's got an AR presence.

Or using it to quickly define patrol areas for drones? A corporate team has just siezed a building, and the drones are on their way... the team leader gets out his can, and marks either routes on the ground, or lines across hallways to define sector borders. When the drones arrive, there's no confusion or delay while trying to map the area... they can simply start patrolling the areas that are defined by the AROs.

Marking a building as condemned or for demolition: Spray the warning on the doorways and windows, also tagging them with an ARO carrying contact information and demolition dates.

Quickly lining a parking lot or temporary road: do the lines with the paint for drivers on manual, with each space or line marked on AR for cars coming off Gridguide into your newly-paved, as-yet-unGridded area.

As a corrolary to the lining one just above, you could take this approach and use it to mark traffic diversions that aren't there, kind of like a bunch of teenagers with some stolen traffic cones creating a revision (not that I've ever done something like this ).

Triage/mass casualty handling: rather than the triage tags of old, each patient gets a blast of color (green, yellow, red, or black) with an ARO containing any information the medic had in their medicomp when they triaged the patient (vitals, extent of injuries, when they were discovered, etc).

Shadowrunners might use this stuff for blacking out security cameras: give it a blast of paint to blind it, and an ARO to mark it's presence for your buddies.

Hell, pretty much any time you need to make notes on something that are BIG and VISIBLE (things like when you're on a road and you see "GAS" sprayed in foot-high letters on the concrete with a line indicating where the pipe is, telling people not to dig there), you could also hit it with an ARO and let people know who owns the line, who you should call about problems with it, and the like.

Quickly marking an LZ for helicopters and the like, especially at night: a big glowing mark in the center of the LZ (with ARO markers for the on-board sensors to use to help guidance), and nearby hazards marked in another glowing color, with ARO markers that say "Power Line," "Tree Branch," and the like. If you're going to be in and out of the LZ repeatedly, it makes more sense than having to replace flares every 10-15 minutes.

Marking cars in a used car lot: spray the price on the windshield (using a paint that can be washed off, obviously) and popping an ARO containing the selling points of the car on while you're at it.

Haha! Nice Illuminati reference! That's worth 3-Karma points.

That sounds about right, given the setting.

I doubt they would use this spray-paint system. More likely all the SWAT members would have their Commlinks connected so that they could mark rooms as clear purely in AR via their shared map overlays. This product would be more for a "low-tech" audience.