What can we do with Apple's AR platform "ARKit"

In WWDC 2017 held in June 2017,"ARKit" is installed in iOS 11It was announced. In terms of spatial recognition, Google's "Project Tango" is the image that was going ahead, but the accuracy of "ARKit" is very high, so the images which are doing various things with ARKit are released at once.

In the following movies, the distance between two points is measured using an application.

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Set the measurement starting point (white ball) at the joint of the tile.


Measure up to about 60 cm away.


The distance between the two points is 0.61 m, which is consistent with the length of the measure in front.

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Subsequently, an application different from the above measurement application "AR Measure"Is used.


Inch display and metric display are written together.


I could measure 48.6 inches (123 cm) without pain.


Set the starting point at the corner of the picture ... ...


Round the distance of the diagonal.


The diagonal length of the picture was 26.4 inches (67.1 cm).


Then I measured the furniture.


First measure the height ...


Then measure the width with that flow.



Then you can display height and width at the same time. This is a trick that can not be used as an analog major.

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You can also play Minecraft in AR (Augmented reality).


Various crafts in the kitchen.



If you go outside, you can also make a huge building.

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You can also draw letters in the air.

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It is also possible to land Space X 's Falcon 9 rocket in his home garden.



By the way, according to the news site · MacRumors, in Germany where Apple owns eye tracking technologySensoMotoric InstrumentsIt is expected that AR functions will be further strengthened in iOS in the future.

Apple Acquires German Eye Tracking Firm SensoMotoric Instruments - Mac Rumors
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/26/apple-acquires-sensomotoric-instruments/