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Now You See Me, Now You Don’t — How AR Works
Welcome to the world of Snapchat filters, Pokémon Go, and soon space suits.
When I was younger I wanted to be many things.
One of those things was a magician ✨
I wanted to pull rabbits out of hats and make things disappear with a simple
Abracadabra
or
Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo
(for all my fellow Disney enthusiasts)
As an aspiring magician, I read magic books 📚 and practiced my hand at mastering the magical arts.
My hope was to become the next Hermione Granger, but I didn’t know that magic didn’t really just work with the flick of a wand or a magic word.
The rabbit didn’t disappear when I put it back in the hat, neither did anything else in any of my magic tricks.
It was all about illusion.
Fast forward several years and I found a new interest:
Technology
And technology is often just like magic. Recently, I found one that can make things appear where they don’t really exist.
It’s called:
