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Developers Are Already Making Great AR Experiences Using Apple's ARKit

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Re: Developers Are Already Making Great AR Experiences Using Apple's ARKit

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Some of these are genuinely brilliant - I love the video of "testing" a cushion on your own couch before you buy.

Yes , 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

Re: Developers Are Already Making Great AR Experiences Using Apple's ARKit

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Has 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.

Just go through the official sample app and documentation https://developer.apple.com/arkit/, if you have worked on Unity, then working with ARKit will be an easy transition for you

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I'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.

Maybe 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?

Re: Developers Are Already Making Great AR Experiences Using Apple's ARKit

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Some of these are genuinely brilliant - I love the video of "testing" a cushion on your own couch before you buy.

Yes , 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

I 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.
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