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by sshff 1072 days ago
Well, there was a clear and specific product driving it in the Apple camp. Not just to get it ready for the dev kit for VisionOS devices but to get their dev teams a constant flow of useful data from any AR apps created in ARKit along the way that have likely fed into the design decisions and roadmap of the entire project.

I’m pretty sure ARKit has been 99.99% in existence as a way of getting as much real world data as possible for the headset design and ‘spacial computing platform’ project.