SpaceX is even landing rockets in augmented reality
Developer Tomás Garcia has a few of the more notable augmented reality demos since ARKit, Apple’s augmented reality tool, was released earlier this month. But his newest one is the most impressive yet. Standing in the backyard of his office, Garcia trains his iPhone 7’s screen at the sky, where a digital version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster comes barreling toward the ground. He follows the booster until it gently settles onto a facsimile of one of the company’s autonomous drone ships in the pool at his feet. It all looks as smooth and simple a process as SpaceX has made it seem in the real world lately.
Like most other ARKit demos we’ve seen so far, this one is brief, and it’s not trying to solve a problem (like this digital...