FX-Guide looks at the State of the Art in X-Realities
In 2017 Google’s ARCore and Apple’s ARKit releases put markerless tracking into handheld mobile devices. Microsoft’s Mixed Reality (formerly Windows Holographic) was released as a standard component of Windows 10. The vision of seamless AR across mainstream mobile devices is getting closer but we are not quite there yet. While AR/MR vendors continue to think big, terminology continues to confuse, with broad and sometimes overlapping definitions ready to trap the uninitiated.