If you have an older iPhone, you might miss out on some of the new AR fun

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If you have an older iPhone, you might miss out on some of the new AR fun
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When Apple teased the latest version of its mobile software platform earlier this week at its WWDC event, it confirmed one of our biggest predictions (http://mashable.com/2017/06/02/apple-wwdc-2017-what-to-expect/) for the company's direction going forward: iOS 11 (http://mashable.com/category/ios-11/) will come with a new focus on augmented reality.

Apple's making a push to get everyone involved in its AR plans with ARKit (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/ar-kit-apple-wwdc/), a new platform that will look to give the development community a toolkit to foster the growth of apps focused on the new functionality.*

Thing is, the new AR functions won't be available on every single Apple device with a screen. iOS 11 won't be supported by iPhone 5 and below (http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/ios-11-supported-devices/), so anyone still holding on to their 2012 tech won't be upgrading their five year old phone anyway. But according to the ARKit developers page (https://developer.apple.com/arkit/), even some devices that can handle the upgrade to 11 could still be left out in the lurch, stuck in just our standard version of reality. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/08/ios-11-arkit-old-iphones/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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