Why Facebook's AR announcement should excite iPhone fans

Facebook’s big augmented reality announcements at its F8 developer’s conference in California are the clearest sign the next iPhone will have built-in AR hardware.

It’s true, Apple’s interest in and affinity for augmented reality is not news. Ask Apple CEO Tim Cook about virtual reality and he will immediately steer the conversation to the promise of AR.

That’s led many people to assume that the next iPhone, the 10th Anniversary iPhone, will feature a camera with built-in augmented reality capabilities. This seemed like a reasonable assumption, but, to be honest, I was 50-50 on the possibility. Augmented Reality is only marginally less of a curiosity to consumers than virtual reality. Read more...