WWDC21 - A first look at Apple's new Augmented Reality features
There are now over 1 billion augmented reality enabled iPhones and iPads which gives an incredible reach for your experiences. Here is an overview of what we know so far from this year's WWDC when it comes to augmented reality, with more details to unrave...
Engineering Awesome Conference 2020
We love engaging with the tech community, and we are big consumers of the awesome work that people share online. So a couple of weeks ago we hosted our first-ever online conference as a way to give back to the community. 6 experts from across our offices ...
Easy web augmented reality with AR Quick Look
Apple is making augmented reality accessible to everyone with AR Quick Look. Not only is this great for iOS apps, but also for websites. Online shopping is one of the best industries that can take advantage of AR, as it can give users the possibility to s...
A first look at Apple's new Augmented Reality features
Apple's WWDC event is greatly anticipated in the Apple developers community every year. When it comes to the augmented reality world, we only got a quick glimpse of what is new in yesterday's keynotes. Here is an overview of what we know so far, with more...
How to convert 3D models to USDZ files using Apple's Reality Converter
Earlier this year, Apple released the tool any ARKit enthusiast has been waiting for: Reality Converter. Keep in mind this is a Beta Release as of the moment of this article. You can convert common 3D files like .gltf, .obj, .fbx using the Reality Convert...
How to make an augmented reality decorating experience app with AR Quick Look
AR Quick Look provides a very powerful augmented reality experience with user interactions like moving/scaling the object, people occlusion and sharing of the model supported āout of the boxā. Now, as easy as Apple makes it for us, from my experience, a b...
Nodes x Hacktober Fest 2019
Getting started with Open Source projects can be daunting some times, but we hope that our local Hacktober Fest events inspired people to get more involved in this community. We organised 5 events across 5 different locations, all with their own personal ...
Using USDZ for a better AR experience
ARKit 3.0 was officially released together with iOS 13.0 and it includes a lot of augmented reality goodies, such as people occlusion and motion capture. You can read about all the new features [here]({% if site.baseurl %} {% if site.baseurl %}{{ site.bas...
Higher order functions in Swift
Higher order functions in Swift are extremely powerful tools to have in your developer toolkit, the only issue is that it might take some time to get comfortable with them. Before we get started, letās have a look at some important terms to know in relati...
ARKit 3 brings more power to Apple's Augmented Reality
We can already see Apple having a big lead when it comes to augmented reality and the new version of ARKit will push them even further. There are amazing opportunities for AR as a mass market E-commerce solution and we can already see big companies taking...
Augmented reality is here to disrupt the industry - Insights from Web Summit 2018
It has been two weeks since Web Summit took place in Lisbon, Portugal and we can still feel the energetic vibes. 3 days full of inspirational speakers, current tech trends, coffee astronauts, robots (have you seen the new social robot Furhat revealed at t...
App accelerators
The competition in the mobile app industry gets bigger and bigger so we have to deliver better and better apps to keep the users hooked. Extra niceness goes a long way in user retention and introducing app accelerators is a great example because itās not ...
Custom Gesture Recognizers
If you want to implement a gesture that is not already provided by Apple you can customise your own. However, they recommend using the standard gestures because users are already familiar with them, so take some time to consider if a custom gesture is the...
UIGestures
Gestures are the magic behind those accelerators that can make your app more user friendly. We will now show a few examples on how to implement them in your code. Swipe Gestures You can have many accelerators build with the swipe gesture as it is discrete...