In addition an announcement for virtual reality support in the new iMac Pro earlier during the WWDC presentation on Strip Club Slayer (2016) Watch onlineMonday, Apple also unveiled a new tool called ARKit.

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The development platform is Apple’s augmented reality tool for bringing AR apps to iOS 11, which sends a huge message to developers that the next version of Apple’s mobile platform will be AR-focused in a big way.

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ARKit includes scale estimation, motion tracking, ambient light estimation, and support for Unity, Unreal and SceneKit virtual environment development tools.

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To show off the power and capability of ARKit, Apple showed off a brief Pokémon Godemo and then had the developers of Wingnut ARshow off the studio's AR game live onstage using an iPad.

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The game, backed by director Peter Jackson of Lord of the Ringsfame, performed flawlessly on a table top, with one of the developers showing off the location-sensitive ability to walk around the AR game in real time.

Of course, there's still no word on a possible wearable AR device that has been rumored for months, but with ARKit, Apple is sending a clear signal that it intends to be one of the biggest AR platforms on the planet.

ARKit designed to work with iOS 11, which drops this fall.


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