Asus Zenfone AR: A new force to reckon with

With its seamless augmented reality features, Asus has set the bar high for smartphones

Last week, Facebook shut down its artificial intelligence bot Alice after it started interacting with other machines in a language it “invented” and which was unintelligible to its human handlers. Around the same time this news captured headlines across the world, I was fiddling with the Asus Zenfone AR, which combines augmented reality and virtual reality in a virtuoso of excellent engineering and design. For those who can still remember the rotary dial phones, the current situation is something straight out of an 1980s dystopian sci-fi novel. Only, now, the machines are not trying to kill us, but are cooler