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Latest ARKit Demo Showcases Virtual Drawing

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Ahead of the launch of iOS 11, developers have been tinkering with ARKit, Apple's upcoming augmented reality platform, and showcasing the myriad ways that it can be used in apps and games.

The latest demo comes courtesy of Osama Abdel-Karim, who uses ARKit to virtually paint on a notepad using his fingers.


According to Abdel-Karim, an iOS 11 library named Vision was used to develop the virtual drawing feature. Vision includes an object tracking feature that is able to detect the thumbnail of a finger and track its movement to enable the drawing.

Abdel-Karim has outlined the steps he used to create his ARKit demo and provided the full source code for the project.

When it launches this fall, ARKit is positioned to become the largest AR Platform in the world, using the camera, processors, and motion sensors in the iPhone and iPad to create some incredibly impressive augmented reality interactions.

As outlined in our video covering ARKit, the feature uses technology called Visual Inertial Odometry to track the world around an iPad or iPhone, allowing a device to sense how it moves in a room. ARKit automatically analyzes a room's layout, detecting horizontal planes like tables and floors, which then allows virtual objects to be placed upon those surfaces.


The first apps and games with ARKit won't be available until iOS 11 is officially available to the public, but we've seen what ARKit can be used for, with developers demonstrating everything from live filter applications in a recreation of A-ha's Take On Me video to live measurements of furniture and room spaces.

Check out all of our previous ARKit coverage below to see what else developers can do with it:

- ARKit Roundup: Turn-by-Turn Directions, Precise Room Measurements, and Pac-Man
- Apple's ARKit Used to Recreate Classic A-ha 'Take On Me' Video
- Apple Users' Mixed Reality Future Teased in Latest ARKit Demo
- Latest Apps to Showcase Apple's ARKit Include Simple Measuring Tape and Minecraft
- Developers Share First Augmented Reality Creations Using Apple's ARKit

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“Sure Apple is behind in VR/AR, Microsoft and Google are so much advanced because they released a couple of juicy press releases and pretty demos in controlled environments.”
 
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When Apple announced iOS 11 I thought it was pretty dull except for the changes to the iPad, but ARKit is something else now that we see it in action! Can't wait for the official release so apps will be on the App Store with it.
 
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It’s frustrating that Apple doesn’t have a beta section up in the App Store. In situations like this, where I run the iOS betas, I would love to have some of these AR betas on my iPad to play with, knowing, that since they are betas, that they might crash, or otherwise not function properly.
 
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I'm definitely excited for the future apps that might take full advantage of this!
I suppose I gotta keep my wallet ready for iPhone 8, as well a number of new apps I never thought I wanted before. :)

Quick question, do we have any rumours on what base storage will be offered with 8?
 
oh my - this is really crazy - the app store will be filled with apps on day 1 - sure some of them will be crap but they will be some amazing stuff for IOS users to enjoy - a huge leg up on the competition
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Oblivious.Robot said:
I'm definitely excited for the future apps that might take full advantage of this!
I suppose I gotta keep my wallet ready for iPhone 8, as well a number of new apps I never thought I wanted before. :)

Quick question, do we have any rumours on what base storage will be offered with 8?
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sounds like they are going with 64GB and 256GB - giving we have 3 models with multiple permutations that should help with supply at least for the S models.
 
jonnysods said:
This is so cool. Every time I see these demos I get excited about the possibilities.
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Call me a pessimist, but I just don't see any practical use in real life, nothing more than a gimmick, just like holograms when they showed them in Star Wars, 40 years later no practical use for everyday.

Don't get me wrong, nice to see companies investing in new technologies, but just because it's new and flashy, doesn't mean it's useful, and yes, like every new thing it will have a niche, but not an everyday use for regular people.
 
nikicampos said:
Call me a pessimist, but I just don't see any practical use in real life, nothing more than a gimmick, just like holograms when they showed them in Star Wars, 40 years later no practical use for everyday.

Don't get me wrong, nice to see companies investing in new technologies, but just because it's new and flashy, doesn't mean it's useful, and yes, like every new thing it will have a niche, but not an everyday use for regular people.
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Couldn't disagree more.
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naeS1Sean said:
These things make me want AR glasses again...

...Or a brain implant.
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I think the lenses will certainly come. And then years later, an implant; perhaps from Musk's comapny
 
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Maybe they can use that new laser module to burn print these drawings onto pieces of paper and make them real!

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ARkit will make the city from “Ghost in the Shell” a reality... I can’t wait to have a huge koi fish spinning around my apartment.
 
nikicampos said:
Call me a pessimist, but I just don't see any practical use in real life, nothing more than a gimmick, just like holograms when they showed them in Star Wars, 40 years later no practical use for everyday.

Don't get me wrong, nice to see companies investing in new technologies, but just because it's new and flashy, doesn't mean it's useful, and yes, like every new thing it will have a niche, but not an everyday use for regular people.
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In a few of my other post regarding AR I said I expect Apple to have something big up their sleeves, I think AR will be used in Maps.
 
AR is still one of the very few techie things I just do not understand. I've seen so many demos of this stuff and gone through several training's on how to program, yet it bores me. I'm glad people are excited about something.. but again I just don't do not get it at all.
 
xero9 said:
When Apple announced iOS 11 I thought it was pretty dull except for the changes to the iPad, but ARKit is something else now that we see it in action! Can't wait for the official release so apps will be on the App Store with it.
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I agree. Apple's AR demo was almost too advanced so it felt pre-rendered and out of reach for developers that don't have millions of dollars and a huge team of artists at their disposal. These Youtube videos are so much more compelling because it gives all the little developers hope that they can compete in the app store providing they are clever enough. I hope we get a lot of little guys that rise to the top because of AR.
 
nikicampos said:
Call me a pessimist, but I just don't see any practical use in real life, nothing more than a gimmick, just like holograms when they showed them in Star Wars, 40 years later no practical use for everyday.

Don't get me wrong, nice to see companies investing in new technologies, but just because it's new and flashy, doesn't mean it's useful, and yes, like every new thing it will have a niche, but not an everyday use for regular people.
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Depends on how you define 'practical'. Are games practical? AR games are going to be a multi-billion dollar business alone.
 
Wow! As an Industrial Designer this is exciting, imagine being able to export that 3D shape to .stl and 3D-print it.
 
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