What are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation.

We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Google’s Career Certificate, Disney’s MagicBand transition and Audi’s AR windshields. See the quick summary below, followed by embedded video. And stay tuned each week for more AR-related musings from Maher.

🎓 Google’s Career Certificate just got real with 100,000 scholarships and 130 employer partnerships lined up. The battle is on.

⌚️ Disney shifting its proprietary MagicBand tech to smartphones is a bellwether for how powerful our personal devices will become.

🚘 Augmented Reality windshields are a safety stopgap until AR glasses hit the mainstream. We discuss the implications.

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