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Augmented Reality and social and ethical challenges

There is one major ethical concern that can be very concerning and needs to be taken into consideration. Because the technology is still new right now there is no current regulatory infrastructure to moderate the development and deployment of AR technology and that is worrying because the AR is advancing at an exponential rate. That means any rules or regulations associated with the technology will quickly become obsolete because new features will keep being presented and therefore will keep overlapping any regulations that people have put in place because they must put in new regulations for the new features presented. Presently, the AR market is scarce because no one trusts the technology just yet as it is lacking in features. That is justified in its expensive pricing which means the AR software is controlled or created by companies like Microsoft or Apple. It could easily be exploited for the companies benefit which is another ethical concern. When it should be the consumers or the people that have control or even creating some of the software with big companies like Microsoft or Apple providing support to those software developers, not the other way around.