Every time I try to come up with an interesting and unique name for a new project I start drawing blanks. I released a daily fat counter app called Daily Fat Counter for Jobs’ sake. There is a tendency to attribute creativity to software engineers because they invent novel solutions to real problems, but I believe that coding makes you less creative, exactly because it forces you to be predictable, clear and objective.
More …In this tutorial you will create an iOS app where a user can tap the screen to place 3D content in their physical environment. You will learn how to load 3D resources from files into RealityKit entities and anchor them to phsyical locations in the real world. At the end of this guide there will be a link to download the finished version of the app we are building.
More …If you are like me, you created a RealityKit AR app using the Xcode template Augmented Reality App under New Project. This template project includes a basic Reality Composer Experience.rcproject file which is loaded into the app and added to the Scene’s anchors. This will anchor the scene to the first horizontal surface that is found. I wanted to know how to choose which surface my scene would be anchored to, and this blog post will explain how I did it, as well as discussing the details of anchoring virtual content to the real world.
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As a mobile developer, I have built many apps as side projects in my spare time. These are usually for the purpose of learning some new peice of technology, or prototyping some quick idea I had in my head, but somehow I’ve gone my entire career without publishing an app that I owned. I decided recently that should change, so I developed and published by first app under my name to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, Daily Fat Counter.
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