Surprised by low interest in and discussion of AR

[InuNacho]

A scenario: You go into a museum with your Apple Glasses on. You start up the Museum's app and look around. Coming up to a painting, a sign appears next to the painting which explains the history of the painting. The app is using image anchors to anchor virtual content to the image of paintings throughout the museum. Once the image is recognized, the virtual content is displayed next to the painting along with a virtual button to turn off the display of information.

I actually downloaded a few of those museum apps a few years ago and somewhere along the line they broke down and were never replaced or fixed. With the rapid rate at which Apple updates their OS, why should any institution invest in it and for what number of viewers?
I'm not saying it won't happen but there is a very real cost to those exhibits.

 

[CodeSpyder]

I actually downloaded a few of those museum apps a few years ago and somewhere along the line they broke down and were never replaced or fixed. With the rapid rate at which Apple updates their OS, why should any institution invest in it and for what number of viewers?
I'm not saying it won't happen but there is a very real cost to those exhibits.

The technology has improved in the last few years. ARKit and RealityKit are really improving. Apple is laying the groundwork.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

The technology has improved in the last few years. ARKit and RealityKit are really improving. Apple is laying the groundwork.

I’m actually impressed with the little AR Toys they provide for each of their special events (collect ‘em all!). Seeing the camera capture the angle of a wall and the toy rendering not only the inferred direction and color of the light in the composited scene, but also adding perspective to cast properly on the wall AND for the shadow to be the correct color is just something you don’t think about as being impressive until you really sit and think about what’s going on.

Then you pass your hand “in front of” it and see it properly occluded. They had one where you could take a few steps forward and look around at a world with just the window of reality behind you through the portal you came through.