“Apple Inc. is gearing up for a big push to popularize augmented reality, launching new hardware and software in the coming weeks that make it easier for users to shop for virtual couches, slay digital zombies and drop artificial videos in their living rooms,” Tripp Mickle reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“A new high-end iPhone is expected to be unveiled Sept. 12 with a dual-lens camera system and 3-D sensors that improve depth-sensing and enhance augmented-reality experiences. Apple’s new operating system, iOS 11, which becomes available this fall, will offer new augmented-reality capabilities first previewed in June. Meanwhile, apps imposing virtual images on real scenes in a smartphone screen are expected to flood the app store from companies ranging from IKEA to AMC Networks Inc., in hopes of benefiting from Apple’s promotion of augmented reality,” Mickle reports. “Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has touted augmented reality, telling analysts last month: ‘This is one of those huge things that we’ll look back at and marvel on the start of it.'”
“Katy Huberty, an analyst with Morgan Stanley, said Apple sees the addition of augmented reality—which imposes virtual images over real scenes on a smartphone screen or other device—as potentially as transformational for its business as the debut of the App Store in 2008,” Mickle reports. “ARKit, which Apple released in June, eliminates major obstacles for developing augmented-reality apps, offering software capable of tasks like tracking a user’s position and estimating the light available in a room. It also turned an estimated 500 million iPhone owners into potential customers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Get ready for the next revolution, driven by Apple, as usual!
⚡️ Hold up ⚡️ You've seen #ARKit ruler apps before 📐 but @MeasureKit has a whole new bag of tricks for you. Great watch and A+ in our book 💯 pic.twitter.com/JOHEAC5Uma
— ARKit Weekly (@ARKitweekly) September 7, 2017
🌠 @zachlieberman is now on Alpha Centauri with his #ARKit/#openframeworks experiments. Turn on your audio for this 🌌https://t.co/Uj5Ig9DyJb
— ARKit Weekly (@ARKitweekly) September 6, 2017
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Still not convinced on this one. A lot fo the time it’s easier just to use a ruler for two seconds and put it down again. Very cool for certain applications, but some things really don’t need to be ‘enhanced’. Most definitely, nothing requiring glasses etc, will be too mainstream. I think the evolution, somewhere down the road, that is free of these encumbrances will probably be what will claim that distinction. We aren’t there yet, particularly in an era when we are actively trying to get people to spend less time with technology and screens, not more.
“A new high-end iPhone is expected to be unveiled Sept. 12 with a dual-lens camera system and 3-D sensors that improve depth-sensing and enhance augmented-reality experiences.”
Interesting that as Google matches ARKit with ARCore, Apple moves to add extra sensors to a high end iPhone model reminiscent of Tango devices.
Augmented reality better than actual reality?