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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

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Apple’s ARKit algorithms wouldn’t work with Google’s ARCore data even if Google gave them access. Apple has always done a great job of this. Values-driven companies like Mozilla or Apple will have a trust advantage over other platforms whose values we don’t know. This is complicated.

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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

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This week, I scribbled some thoughts on another aspect of the future web, the ongoing battle between Facebook and Apple to own augmented reality. While Apple and Facebook both have thousands of employees toiling quietly in the background building out their AR tech moats, we’ve seen and heard much more on Facebook’s efforts.