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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

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Tim Cook has warned the industry about “the data industrial complex” and advocated for privacy as a human right. ” The industry has made data-capture mistakes while building today’s tech platforms, and it shouldn’t repeat them. This data set is entirely separate to the content and user data used by AR apps (e.g.

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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.