WWDC22 - A first look at Apple's new Augmented Reality features
Over 34 million developers are part of Apple's developers community with access to great frameworks including AR specific ones like ARKit and RealityKit. Here is an overview of what we know so far from this year's WWDC when it comes to augmented reality, ...
ARAnchors - Bringing virtual objects into the real world
At Monstarlab we have some incredible talent when it comes to building AR experiences. Some of the work I have seen my colleagues produce has simply blown me away. Really creative, innovative experiences that can often at times blur the line between augme...
Intro to AR Foundation - Cross-Platform AR Application Development
I am glad to participate in the first edition of the MonstarHacks hackathon organized by Monstarlab. In this event, I made an Augmented Reality Panda Demo, and I will take this opportunity to introduce ARFoundation to you and take you through a small AR D...
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 “out of the box”. Now, as easy as Apple makes it for us, from my experience, a b...
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...
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...