Apple’s new augmented reality exec spotlights AR’s importance

“An executive formerly in charge of iPhone marketing for carriers, Frank Casanova, has a new title: ‘Senior Director, Worldwide Product Marketing at Apple Augmented Reality,'” Richard Lawler writes for Engadget.
“In a world where profits from iPhones, iPads and Watches may have already peaked, adding the flair of reality-enhancing features could encourage people to upgrade their phones earlier, if not buy all-new hardware like headsets,” Lawler writes. “Over the last couple of years Apple has tipped its vision of AR as something made for use in a shared world with people operating virtual objects as easily as real ones via ARKit-powered experiences.”
Lawler writes, “Putting someone like Casanova in place now is a hint at the importance of AR going forward.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As per “all-new hardware like headsets,” think: Apple Glasses; small, thin, light, and stylish, not “headsets.”
Someday, hopefully sooner than later, we’ll look back at holding up slabs of metal and glass to access AR as unbelievably quaint. — MacDailyNews, July 28, 2017
The impact of augmented reality cannot be overstated. It will be a paradigm shift larger than the iPhone and the half-assed clones it begat. — MacDailyNews, August 4, 2017
Augmented Reality is going to change everything. — MacDailyNews, July 21, 2017
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