Improvements in augmented reality

In the new ARKit 4 for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, there are four big new features:

• Location Anchors allow developers to place AR scenes at geographic coordinates. Location Anchors enable users to display those AR experiences at specific locations, landmarks, and places around the world.
• Extended Face tracking support allows AR experiences accessible via the front camera in devices with the A12 Bionic chip or a later version.
• RealityKit will enable developers to add video textures to any part of the AR scene or AR object. Video textures also include spatialized audio.
• Scene Understanding has one objective: to make virtual content interact with the real world. Scene Understanding is a new option set into the ARView – Environment object. Scene Understanding contains four options: Occlusion, where real-world objects occlude virtual objects; Receives Lighting, which allows virtual objects to cast shadows on real-world objects; Physics...