AR is Here, and it’s Ready to Sell You a Vacuum Cleaner

It’s not just for catching Pokemon any more

Thomas Smith
Towards Data Science
7 min readNov 25, 2019

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Yesterday, I tried out a carpet cleaner on my rug. I know, that sounds like the most boring hook for an article ever. But bear with me.

Here’s the interesting part. I didn’t actually own the carpet cleaner. I hadn’t bought it, but there it was in my home.

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