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Okay, to be clear, I won’t be talking about PokemonGo or even the Vatican’s Follow JC Go (yes <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45965025" target="_blank">this is a real app</a> through which users chase around Jesus and other Christian figures). While these apps have in one sense put AR on the map, they’ve also done it a disservice — the public now sees AR as merely a way to hunt down cartoon characters and saints in their daily lives.