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TikTok’s Stealthy New AR Tools; AR Developers Start a Collab House

By  |  Aug. 16, 2021 11:14 AM PDT
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You’ve heard of creator collab houses, where creators live together, post together and aspire to become famous. Enter AR House, a project that seeks to put six AR developers under one Los Angeles roof to “build a vertical slice of the future.”

The two men behind the house, Lucas Rizzotto and Aidan Wolf, are both AR developers who gravitate toward artistic or absurd projects—exactly the type of tinkerers that Snap has given pairs of its experimental AR glasses to. Rizzotto in particular has focused on honing the archetypical skills of an influencer on top of his AR know-how, having poured years into a video series called “Lucas Builds the Future”, where he documents ambitious AR and VR work.

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