{"id":173,"date":"2017-08-07T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/?p=173"},"modified":"2018-05-29T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:26:30","slug":"apple-arkit-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2017\/08\/07\/apple-arkit-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple ARKit Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced a tool called ARKit, which\u00a0provides advanced augmented reality capabilities on iOS. Augmented reality is creating the illusion\u00a0that virtual objects are placed in a physical world. Unlike other augmented reality experience that<br \/>\nvirtual objects are just hovering over the real world scenario, ARKit allows for fast and stable motion\u00a0tracking that makes the objects look like they are actually being placed in the real space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/videos\/play\/wwdc2017\/602\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introducing ARKit: Augmented Reality for iOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this\u00a0review, we will give an overview of Apple ARKit, describe its features and structure, then look at\u00a0some potential applications applicable in the university. A SWOT analysis and an evaluation matrix\u00a0score are carried out to give an overview score of this tool kit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.birmingham.ac.uk\/it\/innovation\/documents\/public\/Experiments\/Apple-ARKit-Overview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full report\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced a tool called ARKit, which\u00a0provides advanced augmented reality capabilities on iOS. Augmented reality is creating the illusion\u00a0that virtual objects are placed in a physical world. Unlike other augmented reality experience that virtual objects are just hovering over the real world scenario, ARKit allows for fast and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2017\/08\/07\/apple-arkit-overview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple ARKit Overview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-development","category-projects","category-software-development","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}