[archgoon]

Do they actually provide applications the ability to access raw camera data? They don't allow that on the Occulus.

They can only rely on 3p devs if they allow access to the hardware.

[sobellian]

This has been such a frustrating limitation of all the big AR platforms. For years, my company has wanted to make an AR app for a certain industrial use case that scans QR codes. Neither Meta nor Apple allow it! We had to give up and do AR on an iPhone instead. Think about that - the iPhone has more powerful AR than the Apple Vision Pro for every developer except Apple.

[mrguyorama]

These companies do not want to sell you a physical product, they want to own the platform that you are chained to.