<story><title>Apple’s AR is closer to reality than Google’s</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15872332/apple-arkit-ios-11-augmented-reality-developer-excitement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlakoos</author><text>Seriously, can anyone longer-than-5 list AR use cases that make sense?&lt;p&gt;Today I learned about that restaurant menu app, which shows food on top of the empty plate. Luckily, you can even rotate it! Making the world a better place...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malux85</author><text>As vision models get better there&amp;#x27;s lots of future applications - a database of all known insect and plant life with realtime overlay. Guided plumbing &amp;#x2F; electrical repair and teaching. Virtual pets that interact with each other and real objects. Redesign &amp;#x2F; repaint your interior. Optimal flooring &amp;#x2F; carpet cutting with easy measurement tool in the demo. 
The technology is in its infancy, give it a chance</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple’s AR is closer to reality than Google’s</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15872332/apple-arkit-ios-11-augmented-reality-developer-excitement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlakoos</author><text>Seriously, can anyone longer-than-5 list AR use cases that make sense?&lt;p&gt;Today I learned about that restaurant menu app, which shows food on top of the empty plate. Luckily, you can even rotate it! Making the world a better place...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Think industrial, not consumer. The latter will be games and art for a while.&lt;p&gt;The former needs to visualise interior design changes, factory layouts or even just overlay navigational information for leisure boat and&amp;#x2F;or plane piloting. I would love an underwater AR that tells me what fish I&amp;#x27;m looking at, or a cosmology one that lets me pinch-and-zoom the night sky. I agree that the middle-income consumer won&amp;#x27;t see anything grand for a few years. But that&amp;#x27;s not the point.</text></comment>