Mastering ARKit: Apple’s Augmented Reality App Development Platform

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10. Saving and Restoring World Mapping Data to Create a Persistence AR Experience

Jayven Nhan¹  

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Waterloo, ON, Canada

 

Starting from iOS 12, ARKit has the capability to persist in world mapping data. In the past, you can’t save the AR world mapping data. iOS 12 has given developers the power to create a persistent AR experience. If you are interested in learning about building apps that persist world mapping data in augmented reality, this tutorial is written for you.

Here is what you are going to build.

As you can see from the video, what I mean by persisting world mapping data is that you ...