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Looking Forward to ARKit and AR Apps in iOS 11

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Image from Apple WWDC floor

Image credit, Apple WWDC

At WWDC earlier this month Apple previewed ARKit – it’s initial foray into Augmented Reality or AR. Alongside the intro session at WWDC they published Understanding Augmented Reality which provides a nice overview of how ARKit works, best practices, and its limitations.

Following WWDC the development community has put together a number of great demos that highlight the possibilities and potential of ARKit and the Made with ARKit (@madewithARKit) site has been chronicling some of the best of these.

Here are a few of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/z7DYC_zbZCM

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rIPfpGCxONQ

https://www.youtube.com/embed/NodGjd3C0SQ

 

 

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