AR/VR Weekly: Augmented reality needs our patience

Apple launched iOS 11 today, and this means that anyone with an iPhone or iPad that supports the new software can now jump into augmented reality. And we’re not talking about the pseudo-AR of Pokémon Go — this means, to paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi, games and apps which take the first steps into a larger world.

It’s also an important step if Apple and Facebook are to lead mobile AR to becoming a $60 billion-a-year industry with 1 billion users by 2021, as tech adviser Digi-Capital projects.