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I think this is exciting. Something like AR can only succeed as a medium of social interaction. What is "something?" A toy in the general sense. Successful sports games are mediums of social interaction. Successful video games are mediums of social interaction. Even solitary pursuits like single player games and yo-yos have a social aspect. (Hey, can you do this?)

Who is going to become the YouTube of AR/VR?

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> Who is going to become the YouTube of AR/VR?

Hopefully nobody. Whatever infrastructure layer there will be powering AR, I hope it would be like using the Internet than an App Store.

If you look at current HMD manufacturers, everyone is constraining the operating system for a chance of becoming the AR App Store. If these companies really want AR to be adopted so bad, maybe lower the barrier to developing software for this medium? In that regard, yes, Apple is on the right track, but I do not think we will see any 'killer apps' on an iPhone. HMDs just have so much more potential.

Whatever infrastructure layer there will be powering AR, I hope it would be like using the Internet than an App Store.

Unfortunately, given the high hardware requirements, a closed ecosystem seems more likely for mainstream AR.

> Unfortunately, given the high hardware requirements

Maybe I am missing something obvious here, but why is that a reason for a closed ecosystem?

I think a higher price puts the vendor/manufacturer in the mind that the user has sunk so much into the product, that they are pretty much ensnared.

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