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ARKit Reviews & Product Details

ARKit is Apple's augmented reality (AR) framework that enables developers to create immersive AR experiences for iOS and iPadOS devices. By integrating device motion tracking, advanced scene processing, and camera image analysis, ARKit allows apps to blend digital content seamlessly with the physical world. Key Features and Functionality: - Motion Tracking: Utilizes device sensors to accurately track the position and orientation of the device in real-time, ensuring stable and realistic AR interactions. - Scene Understanding: Recognizes and maps the environment, identifying surfaces like floors and walls, which facilitates the placement of virtual objects in a contextually relevant manner. - Light Estimation: Analyzes ambient lighting conditions to adjust the appearance of virtual objects, making them blend naturally with the real-world environment. - People Occlusion: Allows virtual content to realistically pass behind or in front of people in the scene, enhancing the sense of depth and immersion. - Depth API: Leverages LiDAR scanners on supported devices to obtain precise depth information, enabling instant placement of virtual objects and improved object occlusion. - 4K Video Recording: Supports capturing high-resolution 4K videos during AR sessions, ideal for professional content creation and sharing. Primary Value and User Solutions: ARKit empowers developers to craft engaging and interactive AR applications that enhance user experiences across various domains, including gaming, education, retail, and design. By providing tools to seamlessly integrate virtual content into the real world, ARKit enables users to visualize products in their environment, learn through interactive simulations, and enjoy immersive entertainment, thereby bridging the gap between digital and physical realities.

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Janet M.

Programmer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/5/2019

"It's a great application that helps to build augmented reality apps for clients. "

4.5/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

It helps to build unparalleled augmented Reality experience for many users on IOS.

It can track human movement as input to the AR scene.

It delivers an incredible awareness of people with people Occlusion. ARKit knows where people and AR objects are and properly occludes the scene.

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What do you dislike about ARKit?

I have no feature that I dislike about ARKit. It has really worked for us to create high level augmented reality frameworks which have helped us in a great way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ARKit:

I would recommend ARKit because it has seamless tools that let's you create stunning and complex AR experiences on devices that works best for you.

It has scalable performance.

Its easy to use yet incredibly powerful.

With reality composer for IOS, you can record sensor and camera data in the location where the AR experience will take place and then replay it later on your IOS device while building your app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reality composer let's us build animations and experiences on IOS and Mac to enrich our 3D content.

It has helped us in a great way to quickly prototype and produce content for AR experiences that are ready to integrate into apps using Xcode or export to AR Quick Look. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John W.

Pharmacist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/2/2019

"It's an apple augmented reality development platform for IOS mobile devices. "

4/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

Environment captured through the device can have animated 3D virtual text, objects and characters added to them.

With iPhone X, ARKit can perform real-time face scanning and use this data to drive facial expressions of 3D characters.

It has a camera that is used to determine light sources by which AR objects are lit.

Its compatible with millions of IOS devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

I really enjoy working with ARKit to do our environmental mapping and context awareness in a great way. I have no feature that I dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ARKit:

I would recommend ARKit because it's great with mapping and augmented reality applications.

Its simple to use.

It provides excellent project scaling.

It helps to make iPhone and iPad tracking capabilities available to a wider number of developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?

ARKit allows developers to to build high detailed AR experience for ipads and iphones.

Users can place anchors to mark creations they want to save. This helps in a great way in mapping and creating context awareness in a great way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/21/2019

"Good Object positioning and surface recognition"

4/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

The best feature of ARkit that differentiates it from the market is the light estimation, 3D models can be updated in real time based on their illumination. As no placeholder is required it can be deployed on any surface and are no longer bound to a confined space as such. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

What I dislike is the compatibility with only iOS devices. However ARCore is an alternative for android but we have to develop the same application again on another platform then. One big flaw is that the models cannot be calibrated before launch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

William P.

Senior Mobile Developer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/27/2019

"Augment localised data - add AR to location based data"

4/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

I like the simplicity of using it as it allows to set up an AR experience in a short time.

I remember one of my first experiments implementing a solar system with planets moving around the sun: not too complex even if it were a newbie in AR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

I need to find a way to streamline the 3d model creation, probably because I need more 3d modeling experience. Still, haven't. explored the iOS 13 ARkit but I hope to find a better way to interact with 3d object Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ARKit:

Working on mobile it's better to use the tool provided by the mobile os vendor (for Apple is ARKit) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my opinion, using AR opens new opportunities in communicating information. In my project, I'm going to use AR to provide insights about data geo-localized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

jackline m.

Project Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/24/2019

"ARKit Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

The software has simple interface and very easy to get thus create compatibility. In adition the software help in creating the augmented reality application in iPhones and iPads thus improving the efficiency of the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

The tool is very expensive in maintaining and thus make it hard for the small companies to integrate it in their system thus its quite hard for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ARKit:

I would recommend other firm to use the software for the development of new features in iPhones and iPad thus improving the efficiency of the companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?

ARKit help a lot in creating and designing a new features in iPad and iPhone for the unequalled reality experiences with those electronics. This is enhanced through the incorporating information and objects with the surrounding around us. The tool help in game engine, AR SDK, and AR game engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stanislav K.

Game Developer

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/27/2019

"Great technology for our future"

5/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

ARKit is a very powerful tool for using it in augmented reality. High level of optimization in different cases. A lot of devices are supported. Online approaches. High quality of creating games and applications for different purposes. I think it has a big growth in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

There are things that need to be improved related to positioning in world space, lags in detecting images with small size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ARKit:

Documentation is the right choice to use ARKit, a lot of questions are solved on StackOverflow, so community is growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?

I worked with Unity with ARKit support, developed detecting images and positioning objects in world space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gurkaran S.

Business Intelligence Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/25/2019

"ARKit"

4/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

The most helpful about ARKit is the ability to detect horizontal and vertical planes by using the device's camera. There is an algorithm which gets this point and returns the information as an object known as ARPLaneAnchor object. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

The ugly part of using ARKit is the hardware requirement which requires IOS with an A9 processor(iPhone 6 or later version) and there is an effect on the battery percentage as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/18/2019

"My Experience with the ARKit"

3.5/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

I think the over user design and experience make the most sense out of the current AR kits on the market, there is not an overwhelming amount of information up front and the workflow is pretty seamless with seeing what your changes are doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

I think that the prebuilt tracks for certain projects you are building on are half cooked. That means that they really don't care about the free material made available and that in the end the creators are still only out for profit versus helping the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

martin k.

Data Analyst/Programmer

Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/24/2019

"Augmented Reality Made Easier."

4/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

The ARKit is easy to use and meets all the requirements. The ARkit customer support team is available for 24 hours throughout the year. It is also very easy to start and its light. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

When i was using the ARKIt i found that it can not run on other platform apart from the iOS version 11 and above. Thus you need to own an apple device for you to use the ARKit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

paul k.

Corporate Lawyer

Legal Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/24/2019

"ARKit Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ARKit?

ARKit has a very able staff who help in responding to issues affecting the clients. This tool is great in meeting the requirements of the companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ARKit?

so far i have not experienced any issues with the software however the software cannot run on other version apart from iOS only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.