Re:Apple’s AR is closer to reality than Google’s
by MBCook on Monday June 26, 2017 @10:31PM
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The last time I bought a couch a few years ago I had a horrible time trying to figure out exactly what size to get and what it would look like in my place.
The announcement of the IKEA app that let you try out their furniture in your house by showing it in AR is amazing to me. That would've been SO helpful.
It seems like it be a lot of possibilities for games, some of the things I've seen posted to Twitter have included people making virtual ruler that's accurate to within an inch or so. That alone would be a pretty useful app just for rough calculations of space sizes.
But more than anything… There's probably some pretty cool stuff none of us are going to be able to think of until it shows up in the next six months. And that's what I really want to see.
The announcement of the IKEA app that let you try out their furniture in your house by showing it in AR is amazing to me. That would've been SO helpful.
It seems like it be a lot of possibilities for games, some of the things I've seen posted to Twitter have included people making virtual ruler that's accurate to within an inch or so. That alone would be a pretty useful app just for rough calculations of space sizes.
But more than anything… There's probably some pretty cool stuff none of us are going to be able to think of until it shows up in the next six months. And that's what I really want to see.