Similar to other commenters, I came here in anger. Google has fucked it’s users, it’s developers, and the broader ecosystem with its handling of AR. Google’s en

Similar to other commenters, I came here in anger. Google has fucked it’s users, it’s developers, and the broader ecosystem with its handling of AR. Google’s engineers should be embarrassed, and the executive teams who suddenly are pretending to ‘get it’ should be embarrassed. ARKit (iOS) works. It works well. They’ve built the groundwork by pushing out LiDAR. They’ve continued to advance the SDK. Key capabilities, like map-based geolocation are SDK-level features, rather than being reserved as Google Maps exclusives. They’ve made sure their phones and tablets have high quality cameras, compasses, and GNSS receivers, so the experience works better. They’ve made sure their devices have the horsepower to run AR experiences at 60fps, even with overhead from recording and streaming and multitasking. Edit: how did I forget about spatial audio? Spatial audio is a key capability of the iOS ecosystem (AirPods) that Google probably doesn’t have the imagination or coordination to execute on. Google. Google has: - made a list of the devices supporting ARCore, because they can’t manage their device ecosystem - kills key APIs and SDKs (SceneForm) after heavily promoting them. Doesn’t update its doc and deprecates API with not guidance on replacements. “Just copy and paste hundreds of lines of OpenGL code from the samples” they say. ffs - they still continue to push out devices that can’t keep up. Is it Qualcomm‘a fault? Maybe. Somehow Apple doesn’t have that problem. Mysterious. Maybe a large near-monopolist like Google could get their shit together and use their market dominance for good. But no, Android users get shitty overheating phones that can barely run AR at 30fps, if the apps run at all because all the underlying tech is no longer maintained. - they keep key innovations to themselves. They beat Apple to AR navigation, but fuck developers who want that. Oh, and btw, for people who want to do cross-platform work, Google massively fucking up AR has held everyone back. iOS is ready for top-notch AR years ago, but it’s a tough pill for people to swallow when you have to drop support for all android. Google is holding the industry back. I hope Google gets fucked as bad as they’ve been fucking their users and developer partners.