The Future of Augmented Reality & Blockchain Technology

If there is a major blind spot in the AR space in 2019, it's the impact that blockchain technology will eventually have on the software distributed in AR clouds.For the uninitiated, the quickest way to describe blockchain technology is as a method of assigning unique attributes to digital assets using cryptography, and those assets are distributed on a (usually) decentralized, (usually) public ledger (database) called a blockchain.The most popular application of this technology has been in the realm of digital currency, most famously in the form of Bitcoin. But the promise of blockchain technology extends far beyond its uses as a cryptocurrency.In our current, web-based digital life, copying a photograph, for example, is trivial. And determining whether or not a digital photo is an original photo or just a copy of that digital photo can be difficult. Blockchain addresses this issue by allowing developers to create unique digital assets that users and other developers cannot copy. One recent example of this dynamic was CryptoKitties, a popular game that used the Ethereum blockchain network to allow users to generate and sell unique CryptoKitties — sometimes for thousands of dollars.