This episode, Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister and Super Ventures managing partner Matt Miesnieks joined TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino to talk the past, present and future of augmented reality.

The main question, of course, is why now? Why are we seeing the likes of Facebook, Apple and other similar big cos hopping on the AR train? Because it’s starting to work. So maybe the question really is "why not?"

Comparisons between AR and VR abound, with our guests this week very much in AR’s corner. With applications in the enterprise space, construction, medical have been the most compelling uses of the tech, according to Banister. So is going for a walk and looking for ghosts. Didn’t see that coming, did you?

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Refractions made with ARKit

Why Apple’s glasses won’t include ARKit by Matt Miesnieks