Ondrej Holzman When Apple officially releases iOS 11 with ARKit in the fall, this augmented reality platform will become the largest in the world. However, various developers are already playing with this new feature and we are getting very interesting examples of what ARKit can do. Recently, interesting film experiments have appeared.
Independent game developer Duncan Walker, who works in virtual and augmented reality, tried what it's like to model robots in ARKit and put them in the real world. The result is shots from which you would not recognize at first that robots are among people only on the iPhone display.
# Apple #ARKit film making experiments. shot-on #iphone #madewithunity #screenshotsaturday #madewithARKit pic.twitter.com/85ljCdQqHW
- Duncan Walker (@Trashgames) July 29, 2017
Duncan Walker played around with ARKit and the Unity3D engine to put together virtual battle robots as they walk the streets around ordinary mortals. Their setting in the real world is so believable that it looks like, for example, a scene from a sci-fi movie.
Since Walker filmed everything with an iPhone handheld, he adds camera shake and movement for authenticity as the robot walks. Everything was filmed on an iPhone 7. Walker then used Unity3D to model the robots and then inserted them into the video via ARKit. And that's still just the beginning of what iOS 11 and ARKit can do in the future.
For more examples of how augmented reality can play an ever-increasing role, you can take a look to MadeWithARKit.com.
