Apple demos AR Kit, a mobile augmented reality development platform

In addition an announcement for virtual reality support in the new iMac Pro earlier during the WWDC presentation on Monday, Apple also unveiled a new tool called ARKit. 

The development platform is Apple’s augmented reality tool for bringing AR apps to iOS 11, which sends a huge message to developers that the next version of Apple’s mobile platform will be AR-focused in a big way. 

ARKit includes scale estimation, motion tracking, ambient light estimation, and support for Unity, Unreal and SceneKit virtual environment development tools.  Read more...