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For AR, to win, you do not have to be the first one to market to win, its who can make the best platform for developers will win. As an AR developer, previous platforms like Vuforia, ARToolkit, and even Tango are either limiting or very hard to work with.

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What? Vuforia is extremely easy to work with. Are you sure your difficulty issues weren't just Unity being a garbage heap of bad UI and poorly documented processes?

Lol, I mean building a native ios swift app with vuforia was a pain in the butt, since they have NO documentation on their code or any tutorials. Github link here: https://github.com/interactivetech/VuforiaScenekit

I have been avoiding building AR for Unity for the reasons you described xD!

If you can get someone to walk you through it a few times, point out the major parts, it's the easiest way I know of to get 3D apps up and running. And it's in very high demand.

The only problem is that I very much believe in the web application model as a means of reaching a wide audience with the fewest resources, but Unity's WebGL export is functionally useless.

That would of been great to have mentorship, but I ended up doing it the harder way, Struggling and reading code like a book. I learned a ton though, and its taken a while.I hope to soon provide people with tutorial/walkthrough with 3D apps.

You should take a look at AR.js, its a cool project that will hopefully provide that wider accessibility. The challenge with Apple's ARKit is that its AR technology( is much more challenging than Vuforia, and tricker to implement.

I've not worked with Vuforia, but I can confirm "Unity being a garbage heap of bad UI and poorly documented processes"

Other platforms don't limit you to just one operating system.

Indeed, but if Apple's SDK makes it way easier for developers to get onboard, then the rest of the market will then have something to aim at.

But this solution works on easy to get devices of which there are already hundreds of millions in the field.

It's not exactly a small market to address. Square has shown that you can get people to buy apple hardware for used in some specific capacity.

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