What’s new in ARKit?
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What's New in ARKit?
At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced several exciting updates to ARKit, particularly for visionOS. Here are the key enhancements:
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Room Tracking:
- A new feature that allows apps to customize experiences based on the room they are in. This can help in creating more immersive and context-aware applications.
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Plane Detection:
- An update to plane detection now includes a new slanted plane alignment for detecting angled surfaces. This is in addition to the existing horizontal and vertical plane detection capabilities.
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Object Tracking:
- ARKit can now track real-world objects that are statically placed in the environment. This allows for interactive visualizations and anchoring virtual content to real-world items.
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World Tracking:
- Improvements have been made to make world tracking more robust under various lighting conditions.
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Hand Tracking:
- Enhanced hand tracking capabilities, including display-aligned hand anchor updates for gesture detection and hand predictions for attaching content to hands.
For a detailed overview, you can watch the session Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit.
Relevant Sessions
- Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit
- Build a spatial drawing app with RealityKit
- Explore object tracking for visionOS
These sessions provide a comprehensive look at the new features and how to implement them in your applications.
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Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit
Learn how to create captivating immersive experiences with ARKit’s latest features. Explore ways to use room tracking and object tracking to further engage with your surroundings. We’ll also share how your app can react to changes in your environment’s lighting on this platform. Discover improvements in hand tracking and plane detection which can make your spatial experiences more intuitive.
Build a spatial drawing app with RealityKit
Harness the power of RealityKit through the process of building a spatial drawing app. As you create an eye-catching spatial experience that integrates RealityKit with ARKit and SwiftUI, you’ll explore how resources work in RealityKit and how to use features like low-level mesh and texture APIs to achieve fast updates of the users’ brush strokes.
Explore object tracking for visionOS
Find out how you can use object tracking to turn real-world objects into virtual anchors in your visionOS app. Learn how you can build spatial experiences with object tracking from start to finish. Find out how to create a reference object using machine learning in Create ML and attach content relative to your target object in Reality Composer Pro, RealityKit or ARKit APIs.