The next version of iOS, the software that powers your iPhone and iPad, is jam-packed with cool new features, but none of them are as 🔥🔥🔥 as AR.
If you've ever played Pokémon Go, you'll be familiar with the concept.
At WWDC, Apple's annual conference for app developers held earlier this month, the company showed off just how sophisticated its AR technology is. Here's what it demoed onstage.
You'll be able to download AR apps from the App Store this fall, but app developers are already experimenting with building AR experiences using a beta version of iOS 11 — and some of them look LIT AF.
Here's a robot dancing around someone's living room. 🤖
😮 Make no mistake. Children's bedtime stories will forever change in 2017 https://t.co/zOldgilYIs 🏆 cheers to the p… https://t.co/928SVdAgrC
And a rocket landing in someone's backyard pool. 🚀
🚀 Watch a Space X Falcon 9 landing in your backyard → just look through your iPhone 😮 using #ARkit by @tomasgarcia… https://t.co/OGPor6ULcO
Someone mapped out their bike ride IRL right on their living room table. 🚲
My bike ride in AR. (Unity + ARKit + Mapbox + Strava)
Another developer came up with a cool new way to measure things if you don't have a measuring tape handy. 📏
🔥 BOOM 🔥 And just like that we have #ARKit measurement app number 2 https://t.co/cjfQMpHmx0 → by @laanlabs 🍒
Inevitable, right? 😁
Fidget spinner in ARKit
Here's a plane just floating in space in the middle of a room.
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Check out this person blowing up 8-bit aliens from Space Invaders in an office space like they are the Doom guy. 👽
📡 Here's a Space Invaders shooter game made with #ARKit & #madewithunity. Well done 🤟 @dan1one 🤟… https://t.co/9Y1xETLvx7
Watch these battleships go at each other in an ocean that's...just a floor. 🚢
👉 @ImmersionVR going nuts with office floor AoE 🌊https://t.co/bQ9aTSvcBH #ARKit #augmentedreality 🔥
Behold a moon landing in somebody's KITCHEN! 🌚
🌜 Kitchen Moon Landing by @tomasgarcia (📡 Listen with sound 😋) https://t.co/vUtvi2INam 📲 #ARKit
Here’s somebody who’s now basically living INSIDE Minecraft. 🔨
😱 You can pretty much forget about getting anything done after this hits 🙈 Minecraft for iPhone w/ ARkit & Unity… https://t.co/RoSMFLiDoP
Hold your breath as you watch this zombie shuffle down a dark corridor. 💀
Tracking got a little messed up by the dark but wow! Apples #arkit is nuts.
And if the Widowmaker, the assassin from Overwatch, shows up in your bedroom like this, try not to scream too loudly. 🔫
Recorded straight from my phone last night. (Apple's New ARKit + Unity + Overwatch) Have never seen tracking like t… https://t.co/JfcJfVl33p
