Apple previews new developer tools, including big updates to AR
Apple has introduced Reality Kit, a brand new API that helps to make AR more rich and in depth on the Mac. These tools will help a developer push AR based apps through XCode onto the Mac and onto iOS
AR Kit 3, is a brand new update to the AR API within the Apple Platform. New features include People Occlusion, allowing digital objects evading and moving around real people in real time. This also includes Motion Capture, which means by simply shining the camera on a real person, AR Kit 3 can capture the real time motion of the person it is capturing. Reality Composer was also announced, allowing more creation and in depth editing with AR tools.
MineCraft Earth has been demoed on stage at WWDC, which uses all these brand new features. It is a new version of Minecraft that mixes the real life with the Minecraft world. You will be able to build your worlds around the real world, and also include yourself within your world, thanks to the technology included in People Occlusion.
All characters and textures can be interacted with in real time and is incredibly immersive and responsive.
Swift has been updated. By announcing a brand new Framework called Swift UI. Built in Swift code, allows UI and front end apps to be written in a lot less code than UI Kit. Swift UI reduces the amount of code needed to create UI elements. Xcode includes a new internal playground that allows you to edit and test elements of Swift UI in real time, using an iOS simulation.
The new editor is based on a drag and drop interface, and makes the code easier to understand, and automatically adjusts to new settings such as the new Dark Mode within the new iOS 13 update. This looks to be a great starting place to get more people into writing and understanding code!
It includes a natice framework for iPhone, and Watch OS, and all other Apple Platforms (Mac, iPad, iPhone).