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    10 AUGMENTED REALITY APPS FOR iPHONE AND iPAD YOU SHOULD BE USING RIGHT NOW

    Aug 20, 2019 6 minutes
    BY LEIF JOHNSON
    ILLUSTRATION BY TAYLOR CALLERY

    Apple wants us to believe that augmented reality will be a transformative technology. I want to believe it. It sure as heck feels like it has better potential than virtual reality, which still strikes me as little more than a means of escaping the world by sticking your eyes to a sweaty box. AR, though, can add wonder to the mundane. It can provide information at a glance that we could otherwise only guess at (especially when Google Lens finally makes a full debut on the iPhone). And yes, in some cases, it can even make the world more fun.

    But even in its flashiest keynotes, Apple struggles to show us any compelling reason why we should embrace AR technology now. With that in mind, here’s a list of AR apps from the App Store that best show what AR technology is currently capable of, and how it’s evolved from

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