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