Mastering ARKit: Apple’s Augmented Reality App Development Platform

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6. Detecting Horizontal Planes and Adding 3D Objects with Raycast in SceneKit

Jayven Nhan¹  

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Waterloo, ON, Canada

 

Augmented reality has the power to amplify the world in ways never possible before. How we interact with our world may never be the same again. With the release of iPhone X, the world is ready to embrace AR now more than ever. We are at a special time in history and just at the beginning of something huge. The potential of AR is endless.

What We Are Going to Learn

In this tutorial, our focus is on horizontal planes in ARKit. We are first going to create an ocean (horizontal plane). ...