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The longer Apple goes without releasing their AR headset the weirder adding AR to the iPads and iPhones as some sort of developer platform test bed becomes. It
by whywhywhywhy 7y ago
The longer Apple goes without releasing their AR headset the weirder adding AR to the iPads and iPhones as some sort of developer platform test bed becomes.
It's fine for developers but for end users these handheld AR experiences are so frustratingly poor, frustrating in the sense that the tracking and occlusion tech is getting really good but poor that you're experiencing the whole thing through this silly handheld porthole to the world.
Just starting to get stranger and stranger that every year for around 5 years now we've had to have Apple showing off these features and we nod along knowing we'll never ever use them but understand they're only there for developers, like this lidar sensor.
- lonelappde 7y agoApple's not going to launch a consumer feature until they think it's insanely great. Until then they need developers to keep working at it.
- craftinator 7y agoWish they'd taken that approach with Catalina...
- crakenzak 7y agodifferent teams, and plus the macos team at apple is notorious for releasing buggy and half baked software.
- whywhywhywhy 7y agoThat's my issue, they keep launching these close to useless features because they're being developed for another product. That's why this feels un-Apple