Apple’s WWDC 2020 introduced ARKit 4 with LiDAR-powered Depth API for realistic occlusion, Location Anchors for precise geo-based AR, and expanded face tracking on more devices. RealityKit gains video textures and improved occlusion, enhancing immersive AR experiences across Apple devices.
Apple’s Reality Converter is a free macOS beta app that lets you easily convert 3D models like .obj, .gltf, and .fbx into USDZ files. It offers drag-and-drop conversion, material editing, lighting previews, and metadata customization, making USDZ creation simple for AR projects.
AR Quick Look enables interactive AR with moving, scaling, and people occlusion using USDZ models. Prepare and resize models as needed, create nested USDZ files for multiple objects, and easily preview and integrate them into your app with Quick Look and ARKit.
Discover how USDZ streamlines sharing and viewing 3D models. Learn how to convert files like .obj, .gltf, and .fbx to USDZ using Apple’s tools, and explore options for creating USDZ assets directly.
With more companies investing in this technology and tech giants like Apple, Google and Facebook providing better and better tools for developers to easily create augmented reality apps, here is a list of iOS apps from different industries to inspire you.
