The technology of Augmented Reality (AR) has long been bothering the minds of futurists, analysts and other intellectuals. Despite the fact that AR predicts a great future, all early attempts to implement it frankly disappoint. Change the trend was obtained from Apple: the manufacturer of the iPhone managed in a few days to prove that augmented reality is not only fun, but also useful.

Due to the competent processing of a large amount of information about the environment, Apple has achieved accuracy comparable to the Tango devices. That is, without a complex system of sensors and sensors, and with a conventional camera. As a result, every day there are more and more exciting examples demonstrating the capabilities of the platform. It is also worth adding that they are implementing their projects on the beta version of ARKit and it may become even more accurate to the release.

This time we have witnessed another practical implementation of technology. As part of the Dance Reality project, developers announced an application that makes it easy to learn to dance with the augmented reality of Apple. The program shows on the display smartphone animated tracks that show the sequence of steps in different types of dances. According to the developers, Dance Reality can easily replace the instructor of dance directions.

Previously, another project that struck users was a virtual roulette that accurately measures the distance between two points in augmented reality.

With the release of the final version of iOS 11 for ARKit will appear even more interesting and, most importantly, useful programs. In addition, developers will have the opportunity to improve the work of existing applications such as those that allow you to try on clothes.

Moreover, already now large companies are working on the introduction of augmented reality into their services.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly stated that augmented reality is the most promising technology. According to him, AR is as grandiose an idea as creating an iPhone. Some of this draw conclusions that the company is working on replacing the smartphone. Therefore, there is no doubt that Apple will actively support its own platform. This is often what other ambitious projects lack.