Mark Zuckerberg’s “We’re making the camera the first augmented reality platform” was the first major step towards mass market AR. Apple’s launch of ARkit for iOS as “the largest AR platform in the world” was the second. Where Pokémon Go gave consumers their first taste of mobile AR, and Google Tango ushered in the race towards high end mobile AR phones, Facebook’s AR Platform and iOS ARkit now democratize mobile AR software regardless of hardware. Together with Apple launching an AR enabled iPhone this year or next year, Facebook and Apple have now turned mobile AR into the next great platform war. Consumers will win as usual, but there will be blood (as detailed in Digi-Capital’s Augmented/Virtual Reality Report).
The Mobile AR Platform War
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