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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by angryasian on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:50PM (#14933011)
ARKit what these guys are talking about isn't even that. Its just holding up your phone. This functionality has been around forever. From Worldlens, to Yelp to the Ikea app. I don't know why all of the sudden its considered "Around the corner"
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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by jonknee on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:49PM (#14933323)
> I don't know why all of the sudden its considered "Around the corner"

Because at the end of the Summer hundreds of millions of users will upgrade to an OS that has the ARKit API built in and developers will have a standard solution that works well. That's with the hardware out now, enhanced AR friendly sensors will probably start shipping on the new iPhone and then in subsequent model years it's anyone's guess.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by dave84 on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:18PM (#14933175)
Ubiquity and accessibility. Sure, giant corporations like Ikea and Yelp made AR apps, now every iOS developer can too and there'll be buckets of documentation and tutorials to help them along the way.
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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by angryasian on Saturday August 05, 2017 @12:34AM (#14934249)
layar was an api anyone could have built ar apps with
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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by gcb0 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:49AM (#14935293)
and Android 2.2 also had an api. but don't try to argue with people that just watched an apple announcement.
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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by dave84 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:27AM (#14941027)
They're different things, but don't try and argue with people on hacker news.
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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by dave84 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:20AM (#14941007)
Not markerless, not coupled with a relatively to use 3D api.
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