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 from AWE with Maher’s look at Microsoft Mesh, TikTok’s FireTV integration and Netflix’s latest gaming moves. See the quick summary below, followed by embedded video. And stay tuned each week for more AR-related musings from Maher.

💻 Microsoft updates to its Mesh platform and lays out its Metaverse-focused future. And unlike Facebook Meta, this may be real. We uncover the potential.

🤳 TikTok is coming to a television near you thanks to Fire TV, we explain why this is a terrible, poorly planned idea.

🕹 Netflix is ready to launch its gaming platform but Apple won’t allow it to live in the Netflix app. We dive into Apple as the ultimate gatekeeper.

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