Pokemon Go Dev Believes iPhone X Needs To Do More With AR
True AR is a long way out but the iPhone X is moving the augmented reality conversation forward.
The potential of immersive technology like virtual and augmented reality is untapped and will likely not be fully realized for a long while as creators figure out the best way to put things together. Apple put AR under the spotlight during their reveal of the iPhone X but one of the developers of Pokemon Go, an experience that brought augmented reality to a massive audience, believes the AR Apple showed off is just the tip of the iceberg.
"So…. did we just see the future today?" Hanke asked in his blog post after the Apple iPhone X presentation. "Yes and no."
Hanke felt that Apple's AR exhibition focused too heavily on the visual effect of having a digital object or annotation overlaid on the camera view of the device. That's "really missing the point" as he put it.
"What AR really means is connecting digital information, objects, and experiences with the physical world in situ as you experience them. It’s the part about connecting information to the world that’s important. The way that information gets to you is secondary. What I mean is… AR can be something like we see in the movie ‘Her.’ It could be a whisper in your ear telling you the path to walk or historical facts about the building in front of you."
There are projects that come fairly close to what Hanke speaks of but, one of the barriers to mass AR adoption is the lack of an affordable and comfortable wearable. As time passes, AR headsets are getting closer to that reality but we won't see true AR for a while. Apple's device will help to influence the early conversation, though.
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replyCharles Singletary posted a new article, Pokemon Go Dev Believes iPhone X Needs To Do More With AR
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Couldn't say what my top 5 is since so much of it is tech demo type stuff. AR right now feels like the first year of the app store. I have a few and they're simply games.
This Twitter account has some cool demos: https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/884512251184590851
https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/890283338136772611
https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/885217993088782339
Its a matter of developers just getting better over time, as they have with other new platforms. As for wearables, I strongly disagree that they will be as important as widely adopted as things like smartphones. Even projected car HUDs seem like they would be more acceptable than wearing glasses with AR overlays.
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Back when I played, the game got infinitely better when I turned AR off. It was awful in game. made it much harder to do anything.
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The game even plays better without AR. ‘nuff said.
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Is this the guy that thought the Switch would fail?
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