Augmented reality was one of the technological keys most important of the past year. During WWDC 2017, Apple presented its development kit, ARKit, that provides developers with a wide range of tools to improve and create new applications based on this technology. The truth is that at the moment everything we've seen is mind-blowing.
With the release of the iOS 11.3 beta, Apple has updated its development kit to version 1.5 adding new features such as the possibility of detecting vertical and irregular elements, in this way, creators will be able to improve their applications already created and they are demonstrating this.
Augmented reality for everyday life: ARKit is on its way
The main novelties of ARKit in its version 1.5 are that they are capable of detect objects vertically y irregular shaped objects, which will allow adding a wide range of possibilities to app creators. With its launch we already saw the first tests on the potential of this development kit and with the launch of the iOS 11.3 beta we already have the first ARKit results.
New in iOS 11.3 - vertical & irregularly shaped surfaces with #ARKit pic.twitter.com/z54OuiIxuv
- Tim Field (@nobbis) January 24, 2018
Here you can see how the device detects the floor and walls of a room without problems. In the previous version, there were problems with changing the position of objects And now with this update it is easier to play with depths and plane changes when designing apps.
RT AndrewProjDent: A little demo of what's possible with Image Recognition in ARKit, coming in iOS 11.3 pic.twitter.com/ctIvKObkSG
- Sophia Watts (@smartechwatts) February 1th 2018
Furthermore, these enhancements can be used to create future applications. In this case we see how when pointing at a book or movie with the camera We open a drop-down of the iBooks Store or the iTunes Store to be able to acquire it in just a few seconds. In this way, the speed with which we can handle this content is amazing, something that will probably be added by Apple natively in future iOS updates.