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Latest Apps to Showcase Apple's ARKit Include Simple Measuring Tape and Minecraft
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I am pretty sure Apple has some great things to reveal later, what about AR in Maps.
Mark my words.
Mark my words.
The holodeck is all encompassing, it's not overlayed on the real world, it replaces it. We've got tech that's starting us in the that direction (in a very limited way right now), it's called VR. You should look into it, it's amazing.
My guess is the front facing camera with its face recognition will be key. Imagine turning your face into animated emojis. Or sending FaceTime messages that omit the background and make it look like your head is floating over the screen!
Online shopping for glasses and hats could be made more interesting.
Agreed, mostly.
AR uses an existing environment and adds features. VR also uses an existing environment, but essentially eliminates all the existing features; the environment only serves for the space.
So, yeah, I'd agree the holodeck is closer to VR than AR. This is essentially what VR looks like when you have the headset on but aren't running the software:
There's nothing useful in that room for an augmented or mixed reality.
I had that as my loading room in Steam VR for a while
You gave me an idea for a killer app: AR farts strategically placed on chairs and sofas. It's gold!
I would rather use a DSLR camera, an in-car GPS navigation system, a DAT playback machine with studio quality headphones, a flashlight, a portable gaming device, a full calendar, a notebook, a calculator, and a real tape measure.
Much easier to carry all that crap than just a pocket supercomputer with all-day battery life that's smaller in volume than a deck of cards.
And... Other companies have made touch-based smartphones, mouse-driven computers, thin laptops, smartwatches, tablets, compact Bluetooth earphones, and on and on, first.
But I bet you're eager to claim Jobs was an innovator because as CEO his company created some of those products using the fruits of predecessor inventions. Right?
It's not about who came up with an idea in the rough, first...
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Inches sure do suck!
Lol, 1/25", what's that, instead of just plain old better 1 mm.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc
(New in iOS 11, so you kind of picked a bad time for that example.)
Um. Metal? GameKit?
Not sure what your point is here. That macOS isn't as big a gaming platform as Windows? Yes, we know. Apple knows. They kind of aren't focusing on that market segment.
VR is still pretty far away from letting you walk around much, or interact with real-world objects.
Google Earth on an HTC Vive is very neat, mind you. But the Holodeck is quite a leap from that.
the point is that Apple's API's are not "Best in business" or "best in the world" like the poster I was replying to
They have good API's for many things. And yes, I know iOS11 is goign to open up a few more. But up till now (and remember iOS11 is still in Beta and isn't actually released yet), but on some of them, their API's are not competitive, or purposely locked down.
They're getting better in iOS11 and MacOS, but the jury is still out for example if their API's to compete with DX for example is able to keep up.
Also, Metal has been reported to not support narly the same featureset that DX does. Metal 2 should expand it further, and hopefully give the performance boost that is expected from a modern graphics API
That's fair. I would avoid using superlatives like that.
Right. If you want something to be as open as possible, Apple isn't gonna be the right vendor for you.
I don't think competing with DirectX is ever gonna be a high priority for them. Nor do I think it should be. There's other low-hanging fruits to pick.
I don't disagree with any of your points
and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Just responding to the poster who claimed that Apple's "bestest in business". thats all. I hate those sort of superlatives, just like you probably do. So I was just being pedantic and trying to correct the posters lack of information
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I'm curious if you need to fix or assign a specific dimension to the space at first. I mean how does the camera know the scale of anything to begin without a reference point?
Maybe that will be a function of the dual camera setup?
My understanding is you need to move the camera ever so slightly, which is apparently enough for it to extrapolate further 3D vectors.
If you are measuring it, in most cases you're going to have to reach it at some point.
Not saying that its not incredible, just personal preference.
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I don't. But when I need to measure something, I do.
Right. And when you need to take a photo, you take a DSLR with you. Every time.
When I need to take a good one
See? And when you don't need to take a good measurement, but a rough one will suffice, this is pretty great technology.
VR is not just for gaming. It's been huge in education which is why Apple is playing catch up.
https://vr.google.com/
Although AR is a subset of VR, Cook can only tout AR since current Apple devices are not VR ready until they get OLED, higher resolution and high refresh rate. For example, if you look at Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets they both are OLED with high 2160x1200 resolution (1080x1200 per eye) at 90Hz.
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They're different things, not a subset of one another.
That comparison doesn't make any sense. You're comparing a phone's GPU to that of a high-end gaming PC. Compare Apple's AR to something like Daydream or Gear VR, if you must.
VR is going to change education....eventually.
It doesn't have mass adoption or applications to penetrate deeply into those markets. It will.
My point is that AR is plausible in the short term and requires little more than a new API to enable it. VR will take much longer to hit its stride than AR and this is the reason Apple isn't nearly as interested. The time isn't right. They are rarely first to a new market. They like to redefine the experience based on others failures.
For now, real VR is being sold to geeks and gamers. Faux VR is available on Samsung phones. Once VR drops in price and the experience becomes more consumer friendly, it will be more common in classrooms, hospitals, and so on.