104: “The magic of Augmented Reality”, with special guest Roxana Jula
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Roxana Jula joins John to discuss Apple’s various tools, frameworks, and APIs for building Augmented Reality experiences. How to get started building AR-based apps, what’s the current state of AR on Apple’s platforms, and how might that change if Apple were to introduce dedicated AR hardware in the future?

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Links

• Roxana on Twitter)
• John on Twitter)
• Roxana’s website)
• ARKit)
• RealityKit)
• SceneKit)
• SpriteKit)
• Metal)
• Reality Converter and Reality Composer)
• The USDZ file format)
• Blender)
• Maya)
• Child view controllers)
• Ray Wenderlich’s “ARKit by Tutorials” book)
• Max Frazer’s RealityKit shader tutorial)
• Ryan Kopinsky’s “Reality School” YouTube channel)
• Shaders)
• Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for AR)
• ARCoachingOverlayView)
• LiDAR)
• ARDepthData)
• IKEA Place)
• The “Create 3D models with Object Capture” WWDC session)
• SwiftUI)
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk)