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Microsoft did this a couple of years ago with Hololens and Minecraft..
You mean the $3000 headset that can only be used for AR? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy
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ARKit doesn't seem to require dual cameras because it runs on iPads too. I do wonder if it uses the depth sensing second camera in the iPhone 7 Plus, or if that data isn't fast/precise enough to be useful.
I believe they mentioned using the dual camera specifically during the keynote.
Ooph, this is game changing. There is a LOT of hardware out there that supports this. The iPhone is the most popular game platform on the planet and, just like that, it will be the most popular platform for developing AR applications.
Google Nintendo's AR Games if you haven't already seen them. Mind blowing fun, and years ahead of Apple's efforts. The archery and golf games were incredible. I was hoping for years that it was a sign that Nintendo was going to release Super MARio... https://youtu.be/45zzei39WMg
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You mean the $3000 headset that can only be used for AR? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy
That's the price of the dev kit. Have you ever tried to buy an Xbox or Playstation dev kit?
Or is there some consumer product not listed on their page?
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It is a Apple developer conference for software developers that care about making beautiful applications that take full advantage of native experiences on Apple platforms. Any developer on this community can watch the video.
I can still be an outsider and be genuinely interested in what their platform has to offer and, maybe, later decide that I want to invest in their platform. I become a better developer, Apple gains a new developer, everyone wins. Forcing people to use macOS to view recorded sessions or events goes against that.
You can also use VLC to watch it.
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Developers are to ARKit what merchants are to Apple Pay. Users wouldn't care about Apple Pay if merchants didn't take it as payment.
Exactly right. This isn't for iPads, it's for glasses two years from now.
What does this have over Qualcomm's AR SDK (now Vuforia) that has been available on iOS since 2011 and on Android a few years longer?
And so the advantage of ARKit is having Apple behind it.
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It's just a 3D videogame and pardon I guess I'm missing the point of an AR video game vs. just sitting down and playing a 360 degree video game?
It's great because it does away with convenient touch controls and adds the fun of filming a table with an iPad.
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Of course Apple and developers can choose to ignore Android. The market within the iOS space is huge and if building an iOS only app using ARKit is more profitable then why not ? It's all about ROI. There isn't an equivalent for ARKit on Android and building one would be costly and time consuming.
There have been AR libraries for years. Apple is pretty late to the game. For example ARToolKit is available for Unity, or even Anddroid. https://artoolkit.org/documentation/doku.php?id=6_Unity:unit... Unless you are targeting a specific audience (for example artists that use the iPad Pro) for most developers it really doesn't make sense to confine yourself to iOS.