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Indie developer shares the lessons learned from publishing the first App Lab bundle

The Ghost Howls

The result is that VR developers generally reinvent the wheel and take shortcuts like hardcoded handedness, or pick random toolkits with their own baked assumptions… instead of having great designers giving them great base interactions to just use as Apple did with Macintosh in 1984 and iPhone in 2008.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.