Presumably Magic Leap is developing hardware and software that will be highly optimized for AR/computer vision and will go far beyond the capabilities of an iPh

Presumably Magic Leap is developing hardware and software that will be highly optimized for AR/computer vision and will go far beyond the capabilities of an iPhone or Android device. If ML was to come out and say tomorrow they are relying on the iPhone to run their headsets and apps, their valuation would tank. It's built on the premise that ML has some type of secret sauce that will be much better and more immersive than what's out there on the market right now. If they were going to use a 3rd party dev ecosystem and build their SDK on top of an AR dev tool, I'd expect Unity would be the top choice. Apple didn't really have an AR-focused dev tool until they publicly released ARKit in the middle of last year, making that somewhat of a non-starter for a company that has been around as long as ML.