What’s up ARKit? #1 — Image Tracking, AR Foundation and 2.0 Tutorials
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∙ News
Hi 👋
This is the first Issue of What’s up ARKit? covering all the interesting news around ARKit, Apple’s Augmented Reality technology, in a weekly newsletter. I was looking for an ARKit newsletter and didn’t find any of it, so as our community is getting bigger and more people gets into ARKit, it was time to create one!
This week, we have seen a lot of Image Tracking demos, this new feature allows very visually impressive experiences that we can hold in our hands. Also we have started seeing Shared Experiences using ARKit, enjoy the #1 issue and please feel free to let me know your thoughts about it at @osfalmer 📩
Oscar
ARKit 2.0 — What’s New
In case you haven’t followed everything new with ARKit, this great sum-up of the new features by Sean Allen @seanallen_dev is your opportunity to catch-up on everything new in the 2.0 beta version, available with iOS 12.
AR Foundation Tool by Unity
Unity built a tool to make it easier for developers to support ARKit and ARCore. AR Foundation lets people use common features including surface plane detection, depth data point clouds, device position and orientation tracking, content scaling utilities, raycasting against plane and depth data, reference points for anchoring virtual objects, pass-through rendering, and average color temperature and brightness estimate.
∙ Demos
The First FPS
Brad Dwyer, creator of the “Magic Sudoku” app that solves sudokus with ARKit, just released a demo of a shared ARKit experience of a FPS game.
Game Shopping
The youngest WWDC ’18 Scholar Yuma Soerianto @yumaSoerianto created an amazing ARKit demo of what could be the AR Shopping Experience with game boxes.
Harry Potter Newspaper
Nathan Gitter @nathangitter just recreated the Hogwarts famous newspapers.
∙ Tutorials
Live Image Tracking Tutorial
Brian Advent (@brianadventcode) created a tutorial for using ARImageTrackingConfiguration with the very popular Image Live Tracking possibilities.
Videos and WebViews Tutorial
Very simple and clear tutorial by Mohammad Azam (@azamsharp) to add videos and WebViews in the 3D environment.
Create an AR Shopping Experience — Scan & Detect Real 3D Objects
Brian Advent (@brianadventcode) created another tutorial for scanning and detecting real 3D objects using latest 2.0 features.
∙ Apps
#WordUp 3.0 Update
Romain Derrien @londonrom just updated his Apple featured app #WordUp: new textures, occlusion with vertical surfaces as well as horizontal surfaces, you can also shoot pictures and videos of your environment, fun app to play around with ARKit!
BBC — Civilisations AR
Discover History’s Treasures in your hands with the very beautiful AR app made by BBC. “Discover the secrets of ancient Egypt, reveal hidden layers beneath Renaissance masterpieces and learn more about the origins of these cultural treasures and the people who made them.” And it’s free!
Next Issue -> What’s up ARKit? #2 — Apple’s AR Cloud is coming, AR Glasses and Donuts
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