{"id":59936,"date":"2017-07-06T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=59936"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:07:06","slug":"arkit-ar-on-195-million-iphones-ipads-by-year-end-plus-3-other-items-re-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/07\/06\/arkit-ar-on-195-million-iphones-ipads-by-year-end-plus-3-other-items-re-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"“ARKit: AR on 195 million iPhones & iPads by year end” plus 3 other items re: AR"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARKit: Augmented Reality on 195 million iPhones and iPads by year end<\/strong> <\/a>— from blog.mapbox.com by Ceci Alvarez<\/p>\n

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Apple\u2019s ARKit just made augmented reality (AR) mainstream \u2014 and together with the Maps SDK for Unity<\/a>, will fundamentally change the types of location-based apps that developers can build.<\/p>\n

Using ARKit plus Maps SDK for Unity allows you record your bike ride up to Twin Peaks in Strava and project the map of your route<\/a> on your coffee table. As you plan your next vacation over dinner, you\u2019ll be able to open your Lonely Planet app and have the Big Sur coast hovering in front of you as you browse the different camp sites. Or, when you\u2019re at work appraising a property for flood insurance, you could just tilt up your phone and see the flood plain in front of you, and which parts of the property are susceptible to flooding. Or, when you\u2019re teaching a geology class you project the evolution of Pangea in 3D for students to visualize instead of being limited by 2D images in textbooks.<\/p>\n

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Inside Peter Jackson\u2019s New Augmented Reality Studio<\/strong><\/a> — from cartoonbrew.com by Ian Failes<\/p>\n

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At Apple\u2019s recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, one of the stand-out demos was from Wingnut AR, the augmented reality studio started by director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh.<\/p>\n

On stage, Wingnut AR\u2019s creative director Alasdair Coull demonstrated a tabletop ar experience made using Apple\u2019s upcoming augmented reality developer kit called ARKit and Epic Games\u2019 Unreal Engine 4. The experience blended a real world environment \u2013 the tabletop \u2013 with digital objects, in this case a sci-fi location complete with attacking spaceships, while being viewed live, on an iPad.<\/p>\n

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