ARKit is going to be a lot of fun while we wait for it to become useful
ARKit has looked like a promising platform for augmented reality in the few short weeks since the first two beta versions of iOS 11 were released to developers. But when iOS 11 officially drops this fall, it’s more likely that we — both consumers and developers — are still going to be figuring out what to use it for. Which means, in the early going, we’ll probably be using ARKit apps to goof off.
Take this example from Federico Viticci on Twitter. Unlike some of the more ambitious ARKit demos, Viticci isn’t using a specially developed app to put digital tchotchkes on that very real (and very good) dog. Instead, he’s just using the demo that Apple whipped up to show off ARKit at WWDC to make a funny joke. He’s not alone: the first week...