Our New Reality, Augmented
Just over a week ago Google released Android 8.1, still slowly rolling out to the Google Pixel line. Now normally, 0.1 upgrades don't really do much, but this one is a little different. It contained the necessary framework for what it called ARCore -- Augmented Reality. Right now there's two big types of "Reality" we see these days, one is Virtual Reality (VR) and the other is Augmented Reality (AR). The biggest difference and the easiest way to think of it is that VR is creating a whole new world around you, putting you in a completely different place, while AR works with what you're seeing right now, the world you're in, and adding elements to it. Most famously Pokemon Go came out last summer and had an "AR mode" that added basically added a Pokemon on top of whatever your camera was looking at. Now that implementation was okay, but not great. So why is what Google has done such a big deal? Although Google started working on AR, starting with