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Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate by Ankintol on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:13PM (#27583790)
They may still make that, but I suspect developers will not have full access to the full power of the platform.

A thought I should have fleshed out in the above post: the kind of sensor data that enables AR can also be used to deduce a great deal of personal information[0]. With Apple taking a strong position on privacy I suspect they will make only a limited subset of data available to developers.

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332386880_Privacy_I...

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Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate by zepto on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:56PM (#27586696)
> I suspect they will err on the side of hiding this data from developers.

More likely, they will allow developers some mechanisms for leveraging the data on device, without being able to exfiltrate it.

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