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Developers Are Already Making Great AR Experiences Using Apple's ARKit
- King-Aaron 9y agoSome of these are genuinely brilliant - I love the video of "testing" a cushion on your own couch before you buy.
- amitaggarwal 9y agoYes , the biggest problem for me and wife has been to visualize how the new furniture we are buying will look inside our house. AR can solve lot of those problems to some extent
- King-Aaron 9y agoI can see benefits in the interior paint industry, and the flooring industries too. Being able to 'preview' tens of thousands of dollars worth of tiles (for instance) would be a real benefit, especially if you operated an interior design company etc.
- cjrp 9y agoI have the same problem with a shed; how would it look in the space I've got?
- coldcode 9y agoThis only works to add to the environment. The problem with the AR approach for things like "what would this couch look like in my living room" is you can't get rid of the existing couch. That's still a long way away.
- greggman 9y agoIs it? Maybe some 3D content aware fill + deep learning and it's not so far away? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCiknbQ7KM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCiknbQ7KM
- King-Aaron 9y agoI can foresee a great many stubbed toes in the future with this technology
- clayjen 9y agoTook me a while to realize that two guys playing basketball were actually Virtual
- darpanat 9y agoHas anyone played with the ARKit yet to develop? Will be great if you can share your experience. I have made couple of games on Unity and want to dive into mixed reality applications.
- ruchirs 9y agoJust go through the official sample app and documentation https://developer.apple.com/arkit/ https://developer.apple.com/arkit/, if you have worked on Unity, then working with ARKit will be an easy transition for you
- greggman 9y agoLooks like someone has already made a Unity ARKIT plugin https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/92515 https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/92515
- cageface 9y agoI've seen several very creative demos but I'm still struggling to see practical applications. It seems like massive, every day adoption of this kind of AR is going to have to wait for dedicated glasses. Maybe I just lack imagination.
- forgottenacc57 9y agoMaybe point it at a sports game for stats and game data? Point it down the street to have great restaurants highlighted? Point it at the sky to get astronomical facts? Point it at tourist landmarks to find out about them? Point it anywhere to see where athletes/runners/cyclists have run and in what time? Visualise all historical car accidents at a given location? Visualise all hidden infrastructure, underground gas lines etc? See history overlaid on the present? Visualise public transport routes? Show "upcoming events at this venue" as you pass theatres, cinemas, stadiums?
- vilmosi 9y agoCan't you do all that without the pointless waving, faster?
- amelius 9y agoMask advertisements, and replace them by beautiful paintings.
- davnicwil 9y agoAn ad-blocker for the physical world? Hmm.. Will employees of the city 'pop up' in your path as you walk down the street: "Hey! I see you're using an ad blocker! The city relies on advertisements to fund the street you're walking on right now, please consider turning it off!"
- vbezhenar 9y agoYour AR device will replace those employees with beautiful dancing girls, of course.
- ruairidhwm 9y agoThis is awesome! I can't wait to start playing around with this :)
- thisacctforreal 9y agoThere's no way you can talk about ARKit without showing off the measuring tape apps https://youtu.be/z7DYC_zbZCM https://youtu.be/z7DYC_zbZCM
- nickpeterson 9y agoThat's pretty cool. I almost wonder if someone could use this type of tech for a cheap way of mapping the inside of structures/homes. Something like an ARKit -> Sketchup service. That or a good way to monitor job-sites for correctness, remotely.
- xkcd-sucks 9y agoYeah, even though consumer AR (= overlay graphics on picture of the world) hasn't really taken off, it it is being adopted by industries that build large things with people like buildings, ships, etc.
- doublerebel 9y agoIt's already possible to do this in a basic sense with Canvas (uses Structure sensor) and floorplans have been done since 2014 with RoomScan app. What apple and these apps don't want to say is that they absolutely can't be used for measuring correctness, the calibration and accuracy is just not that good.
- rsp1984 9y agoShameless plug: At DotProduct (www.dotproduct3d.com) we have pioneered this. We've been selling our solution since summer 2013.
- philbarr 9y agoWow - how does it do that?! Image recognition techniques alone (as far as I know) couldn't do that, right? So how does it know how far away something is?
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- mycat 9y agoSeems Apple solved monocular SLAM problem before attempting VR. Wonder if they used FPGA or anything to speed up the algorithm? In my experience SLAM takes too much computation power and/or release too much heat.
- wmeredith 9y agoSLAM?
- thedevil 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
- doublerebel 9y agoBasic monocular SLAM has been solved for a while on mobile devices. ARKit, Facebook, and Magic Leap are just very careful to show only demos where the SLAM works well for that case. Detailed monocular SLAM needs a lot of CPU, but that is changing...
- skc 9y agoVery cool tech but the phone as viewport seems like a fairly large step backwards in my opinion.
- kenbellows 9y agoDepends on the use application. For observing especially large objects[1][2], I agree, it would be very hard to use for anything beyond a quick demo. But on the other hand, I think the phone is a perfect viewport for on-the-fly smaller applications, like an AR measuring tape[3], adding info about artwork in a museum, displaying a virtual prototype of a dish on a restaurant's menu[4], translating street signs on the fly[5], etc. The phone is perfect for applications where you don't want to plan ahead or be constantly carrying an extra piece of equipment around. 1: https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/880815805281300480 https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/880815805281300480 2: https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/880056901987254272 https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/880056901987254272 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7DYC_zbZCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7DYC_zbZCM 4: https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/880744158423658497 https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/880744158423658497 5: http://newatlas.com/google-translate-update/35605/ http://newatlas.com/google-translate-update/35605/