Apple's already winning the augmented reality wars against Google

The augmented reality wars have begun.

Google unveiled its challenger to Apple's ARKit on Tuesday. It's called ARCore, an AR platform built to work with the massive number of Android devices already in use.  

For Google, there's one fairly major problem: Apple's iPhone 8 and the public release of iOS 11 (the system ARKit developers are creating apps for) is about to hit millions and millions of eager consumers who have been saving up for the 10th anniversary iPhone. 

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The debut of the new iPhone is just a couple of weeks away. With Google announcing that ARCore is currently only available for the Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S8, Apple is primed to be the public's first real escort into the AR age.  Read more...

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