Have you ever wanted a little dragon for yourself? Ever wanted to unleash your inner Khaleesi? The new AR Dragon Simulator provides you with a baby dragon as a pet that you can interact with. When it hatches, you will need to take care of your unique dragon. You can feed him and watch him grow older and bigger. In addition, you can play different games with the dragon.
3. Zombie Gunship Revenant AR
This is the most hardcore augmented reality game ever. If other games with her disappoint you, try this one. This is a zombie shooter. You control a helicopter with a machine gun by moving your device. The game has epic battles and powerful weapons.
4. AR Drone Commander Lite
This is a very simple game. You point your camera at a flat surface (like the floor) and the game displays a military base on it. You will be attacked. You control a drone from the air, and your task is to destroy enemy tanks and helicopters.
5. YuME: Alice's Dream
If you like to collect puzzles, you will love YuMe. In the game, you enter a fantasy world that is displayed right in front of you. You can view it as you move around the room and interact with its components. You'll need to put pieces together and solve puzzles to progress through the story as Alice, who travels through the Renaissance.
6. Lila's Tale: Stealth
This is a very cool adventure game that only works with augmented reality. The game is reminiscent of role-playing games like World of Warcraft.
In the game, you need to control Leela, a little girl who is stuck in a strange place. You will need to move your device while avoiding enemies and collecting coins. The goal of the game is to collect all the keys and get out of each fortress.
7. ARRise
ARRise is a game created specifically for augmented reality. In some games there is only a mode with extra. reality, and ARRise was designed specifically for it. And it is immediately visible. The game is a 3D puzzle. Something similar to Monument Valley, only with augmented reality.
You need to move your device to open up a new perspective (literally) and put the pieces of the puzzle together. You will not need to touch the screen, you control the game only with your movements.
Right now there are only 3 levels in ARRise, but the creator of the game promises to release new ones every month for free. It will be a nice monthly surprise for only $2.99.
8. Splitter Critters
Splitter Critters contains innovative gameplay for iPhone and iPad. In it, you need to literally cut your way through an imaginary world and move so that your hero can continue his journey. There is nothing special about the new augmented reality mode. It just adds a small screen with a camera view that you can play on.
However, the game is still worth appreciating. Augmented reality in it as a small bonus.
9 Kings of Pool
New extra mode reality in Kings of Pool takes up more space than usual and is made with a lot of detail. You can adjust the size of the table depending on how much free space you have for its location.
Move around the table to see it from different sides and angles. Click and drag to hit. You can get closer, move, and hit with different strengths.
10. Flat pack
Flat Pack is a multi-dimensional platform. It combines 2D and 3D elements, and because of this, it is even more difficult to understand what to do. It has over 30 levels and epic boss battles.
New extra mode Reality allows you to interact with levels in 3D. Instead of swiping to move, you need to move your device.
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On June 5, at the annual Developers Conference, Apple announced its own ARKit platform for creating augmented reality applications. The AR (Augmented reality) toolkit is available in iOS 11 beta, and developers are already using it to implement their ideas.
New: 11 exciting augmented reality games and apps for iOS 11 that are already free in the App Store.
We already talk about some of the works of other craftsmen, but new ones appear almost every day. Here, for example, is a real sea battle on the office floor.
Despite some comical implementation of the idea with flying cats, in the future it can have a wide range of applications. It is indicative that objects of augmented reality continue to exist in the space of a large office, retaining all their parameters even when they are outside the “vision” of the smartphone camera.
In the next video, attention is focused on the realism of the image and the change in the physical properties of a real object.
Positioning accuracy is a strong point of ARKit:
Here is the BB-8 rolling around the apartment:
Here the virtual world effectively connected with the real one:
And dance apps are especially popular among developers. Once:
Apple's ARKit Demo
During the presentation, Apple Vice President Craig Federighi showed several examples of the possibilities of augmented reality technology. First, he placed virtual dishes and a lamp on a real table. When moving the camera, these objects retained their proportions, position, and even correctly cast a shadow depending on the angle of illumination. In addition, Federighi demonstrated a virtual Lego constructor and ball physics updated based on ARKit in the game Pokemon Go.
During the same conference, director Peter Jackson's Wingnut AR studio showed its development on the Unreal Engine and ARKit. A futuristic colony town under fire from space warships - a preparation for a future demo game.
Apple CEO Steve Cook called augmented reality as important a technological achievement as smartphones were. Now it is difficult to predict the further joint development of these achievements, because in terms of convenience, the smartphone is inferior to augmented reality glasses, but a significant increase in mobile games and other entertainment content is guaranteed. What is the example of Pokemon Go.
1. Self-learning Siri
Siri voice assistant in iOS 11 will speak in more lively voices, as well as self-learning. Siri will be able to analyze what music you listen to and suggest suitable new items, as well as receive information about your activities and preferences not only from your iPhone, but also from your other Apple devices.
Another innovation: Siri can now be accessed not only by voice, but also by text commands.
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Comparison of English Siri on iOS 10 and 11. Video: iupdateos / YouTube
2. Augmented Reality AR
iOS 11 introduces AR augmented reality technology. With the AR Kit, third-party developers will be able to create augmented reality apps or games.
For example, you can look at dishes in a restaurant as if they were already served:
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Video: Alper Guler / YouTube
Learn to dance thanks to the interactive tutorial:
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Video: Dance Reality / YouTube
"Draw" graffiti on real objects:
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Video: laanlabs / YouTube
Or walk with a virtual dog:
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Video: Made With ARKit / YouTube
3. Updated apps
The standard camera can now scan a QR code - there is no need to download separate applications for this. The Phone and Calculator apps have received a more modern design, and the brightness of the flashlight can now be adjusted.
iMessage has new effects and quick access to stickers, emoji, and available apps. Also using iMessage, you can send money to your interlocutor via Apple Pay. However, while this function is not available even in the US, and when it will appear in Ukraine - it is impossible to predict.
The developers promise that money transfer will work in the next version of iOS. Photo: apple-iphone.ru
4. New AppStore
The AppStore in the new version of iOS will be not just an "application store", but also an information resource. Users can find here daily articles, tips, selections of games or applications, digests and more. This content is created by Apple employees themselves.
The new look of the AppStore. Photo: apple-iphone.ru
5. Do not disturb the driver mode
If you enable this feature, then when you are driving, you will not be distracted by any notifications, even calls. People who try to contact you will receive a message that the recipient is driving (auto-replies can be configured depending on the caller).
"Do not disturb the driver" can be turned on in the control center. The mode will also be activated automatically if the iPhone connects to the car via Bluetooth.
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The Do Not Disturb Driver feature allows you to receive messages only if the sender considers them urgent. Video: MacRumors / YouTube
6. Quick Type Keyboard
iOS 11 has optimized one-handed typing. You can enable this feature by selecting the language on the keyboard. In this case, the letter keys will move to the right, closer to the thumb, and it will be more convenient to type. This only works on 4.7-inch iPhone models.
In addition, letters, numbers, punctuation marks and some special characters are now on the same keyboard, so you will have to switch modes much less often.
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Typing with one hand just got easier. Video: AppleInsider / YouTube
7. Live Photos, new filters and file compression
The new operating system has significantly improved the Live Photos feature ("live photos"). Now you can edit them, choose the best frame from them or create various animations. The camera also has nine new photo filters optimized for natural skin tones, and the ability to take photos at slow shutter speeds.
There are also new formats for saving photos and videos - HEIF and HEVC. Thanks to this innovation, photos and videos will take up half the space than before, without losing quality. However, these formats are not supported on all devices that can be updated to iOS 11. For example, iPhone 5S, 6 or 6S does not support such encoding.
Photos in the new format will take up half the space than in JPG. Photo: apple-iphone.ru
8. Customizable Control Center
If in iOS 10 the control point ("curtain", which appears if you pull from the bottom edge of the screen) consisted of two screens, then in iOS 11 all the settings fit on one. Now the user will be able to add or remove the options that he wants to see in the control center.
True, some functions can not be found immediately. For example, to turn on the "night mode" (Night Shift), you need to hold your finger on the brightness slider. New features have also appeared: for example, with one click in the control center, you can record video from the screen.
The control center can be customized to your liking. Photo: apple-iphone.ru
9. "Files" instead of iCloud Drive
After updating iOS, instead of the standard iCloud Drive, a new application will appear - "Files". It allows you to search, move or delete your files - both stored on your iPhone / iPad and in cloud services.
"Files" can work not only with iCloud, but also with third-party storages: Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and others. Photo: apple-iphone.ru
10. Personal settings
Applications can now be "temporarily uninstalled" while retaining personal settings that will be restored the next time they are installed. If you bought a new iPhone with iOS 11, you can skip the settings step altogether: just bring it to the old iPhone, and the new gadget will copy its settings.
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The new iPhone can be set up just like the old one in a few minutes. Video: iDeviceHelp / YouTube
11. iPad Dock and New Apple Pencil Features
The new Dock on iPad lets you switch between apps and open them with a simple gesture. The panel is available on any screen and you can save up to 15 applications in it, and the most used ones will appear on the right (not only on the iPad, but also on the iPhone or Mac). Split View and Slide Over modes allow you to conveniently place multiple applications on one screen.
The Apple Pencil in iOS 11 lets you quickly mark up PDF files and screenshots, draw in Notes and Mail, and write directly on the lock screen.
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With iOS 11, the iPad tablet has become more like a MacBook laptop. Video: 9to5Mac / YouTube
Compatibility and disadvantages
iOS 11 is the first version of Apple's operating system, which is designed only for devices with 64-bit architecture. This means that the update will only work on iPhone 5s and later, all iPad mini 2 and later, and the sixth generation iPod touch. For iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, and iPad 4 owners, iOS 10.3.3 will remain the latest version available.
However, iPhone 5s owners note that iOS 11 is poorly adapted for their devices: gadgets began to work much slower than on 10.3.3. Users also complained about numerous "design blunders" in the new operating system: font mismatch, crooked indentation, animation freezes, and more.
The Russian-language portal "Kanobu" published a video in which the author describes five reasons not to upgrade to iOS 11, and the Appleinsider.ru website has instructions on how to return to iOS 10.3.3.
ARKit 2 allows developers to create AR apps that can be shared with friends. Everything you do can be saved so you can return and continue at any time. Share AR objects in Messages and Mail, then view them in your surroundings.
Cameras that will show more.
The cameras on iPhone and iPad work great in low light and shoot video at 60fps, which is ideal for augmented reality applications. Thanks to the optical stabilization system, the image is very clear, so virtual objects look natural in a real environment.
Graphics and performance. For an unrealistically real picture.
A12 Bionic is not just the most powerful and smartest processor ever designed for iPhone. It was created specifically to support augmented reality. Several high-performance cores provide the necessary processing power. And the image signal processor evaluates lighting conditions in real time, so virtual objects look incredibly realistic.
Advanced motion tracking technology.
The magic of augmented reality comes largely from accurate motion tracking. To create the feeling that an object is in the real world, its position relative to your iOS device must be calculated with great accuracy. To do this, the iOS system takes into account the current position of your device in space, as well as the distance between the cameras and motion sensors of different iPads and iPhones.
To create applications with augmented reality (Augmented Reality). It aims to turn iOS devices into the largest AR platform in the world. The developers liked the idea, and the first thematic programs have already seen the light.
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What is ARKit?
Apple ARKit is a tool for developers to create augmented reality apps. To analyze the surrounding space, the technology uses regular cameras and sensors of the iPhone and iPad. The ARKit app allows your iOS device's camera to automatically recognize different surfaces and complete them with suitable objects in real time. As a result, the user receives a realistic animated image on the screen of the device.
It is worth noting that augmented reality applications have existed in the App Store for a long time. To develop AR applications, developers used their own technologies. A prime example of such an application is:
Which iPhones and iPads support ARKit?
According to Apple, iOS devices equipped with A9 processors and newer have received support for ARKit applications. At the moment it is:
- iPhone 6s,
- iPhone 6s Plus,
- iPhone SE,
- iPhone 7,
- iPhone 7 Plus,
- 9.7" iPad (2017)
- 9.7" iPad Pro,
- 10.5" iPad Pro
- 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
Examples of applications developed on the basis of ARKit
Tesla Model 3
A fan of electric vehicles manufactured by Elon Musk created an application with a 3D model of Tesla Model 3. In a short video, the author demonstrates the capabilities of the program: you can “put” the car in any convenient place, instantly change the color of the body, turn on the headlights and watch how the car moves off and rides forward.
Food order
Came to a popular restaurant, took a seat and don't want to leave so as not to lose it? No problem - after all, with the application of the developer Alper Guler, you can easily “put” all the food from the menu on the table in front of you, increase / decrease, twist and only then order what you have chosen consciously, and not in a hurry.
Window to another world
The French consulting agency Nedd has shown what major game developers will be doing in the coming years. The player is standing on a very ordinary street, and a door to a completely different area (if not to another world) opens before him! He enters the door, looks around. The "native" world remains in the doorway. The player then returns "home". Here is an example of a combination of augmented (AR) and virtual (VR) realities.
P.S. And here is an example of a technique beloved by many AR application developers - human figures are reduced and placed on a horizontal surface next to ordinary objects to emphasize the unusual situation:
Dancing robot
Virtual Roulette
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