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What role does AR have in the Metaverse?
For emerging technology “veterans” we imagine there’s a collective eye-roll about the recent furor around Facebook (and then Microsoft, and then others’) announcements about the “Metaverse”. The idea of an alternative digital “world” has existed in various guises for a long time, so we’ve asked ourselves what’s so new that it has prompted the deluge of recent headlines. Is it the accelerated digitisation of the workplace brought about by Covid-19, the appearance of digital fashion items on gaming platforms, and the more widespread availability and adoption of blockchain technologies - prompting the boom in NFT’s - all three, or something else?
AR vs. VR: Two Completely Different Technologies
With all the talk about Virtual Reality (VR) over the past 12 months, poor old augmented reality (AR) has felt a little put out when it comes to grabbing the headlines. The relentless march of innovation decided that augmented reality was obsolete, assigned to the scrap heap after someone said “why don’t you just fill out the whole camera view with content” and be done with it.