What's new in ARKit?

At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced several exciting updates to ARKit, particularly for visionOS. Here are the key highlights:

1. Room Tracking: ARKit now includes a room tracking feature that allows apps to tailor experiences based on the room you're in. It can identify room boundaries and recognize transitions between rooms, enabling unique experiences for each space. This is covered in the Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit session.

2. Plane Detection: A new slanted plane alignment has been introduced, which allows for detecting angled surfaces in addition to horizontal and vertical ones. This enhancement is useful for placing virtual content on various surfaces. More details can be found in the Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit session.

3. Object Tracking: ARKit can now track real-world objects that are statically placed in your environment, providing the position and orientation of these items to anchor virtual content. This feature is new to visionOS and is detailed in the Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit session.

4. Hand Tracking: Improvements have been made to hand tracking, offering options for continuous or predicted hand tracking, depending on the needs of your app. This is particularly useful for gesture detection and attaching content to hands. Learn more in the Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit session.

These updates are designed to enhance spatial computing experiences, allowing developers to create more immersive and interactive applications.