Mastering ARKit: Apple’s Augmented Reality App Development Platform

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4. Building Your First ARKit App with SceneKit

Jayven Nhan¹  

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Waterloo, ON, Canada

 

Augmented reality is here. It is coming in a big way. Remember Pokémon Go? Well, that’s just a taste of augmented reality. Apple is bringing augmented reality to the masses, starting with iOS 11. With iOS 11, hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads are going to be AR capable. This will make ARKit the largest AR platform in the world—overnight. Yes—overnight. If you are interested in building augmented reality apps for iOS 11 and above, then you are in the right place.

Purpose

This chapter helps you familiarize ...