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ARKit what these guys are talking about isn't even that. Its just holding up your phone. This functionality has been around forever. From Worldlens, to Yelp

ARKit what these guys are talking about isn't even that. Its just holding up your phone. This functionality has been around forever. From Worldlens, to Yelp to the Ikea app. I don't know why all of the sudden its considered "Around the corner"

dave84 9y ago
Ubiquity and accessibility. Sure, giant corporations like Ikea and Yelp made AR apps, now every iOS developer can too and there'll be buckets of documentation and tutorials to help them along the way.
- angryasian 9y ago
  layar was an api anyone could have built ar apps with
  - gcb0 9y ago
    and Android 2.2 also had an api. but don't try to argue with people that just watched an apple announcement.
    - dave84 9y ago
      They're different things, but don't try and argue with people on hacker news.
  - dave84 9y ago
    Not markerless, not coupled with a relatively to use 3D api.
jonknee 9y ago
> I don't know why all of the sudden its considered "Around the corner" Because at the end of the Summer hundreds of millions of users will upgrade to an OS that has the ARKit API built in and developers will have a standard solution that works well. That's with the hardware out now, enhanced AR friendly sensors will probably start shipping on the new iPhone and then in subsequent model years it's anyone's guess.