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Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters (www.sfgate.com)
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[โ€“] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

VR is more about having fun than practical solutions.

AR will bring the practical applications.

[โ€“] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

By the same token, AR is no longer new technology. Every AR app I've ever had on my phone got used a couple of times at the start, and have since been auto-offloaded from disuse. There might be some edge case stuff relating to accessibility tools, but companies like Apple weren't the ones leading research into those in the first place.

In fact now I come to think of it, the most successful AR app I'm aware of is Pokemon Go...