One of the best features of iOS 11 is not directly visible, but it is the one with the most interesting practical implications. This is Apple's ARKit framework which allows developers to easily create augmented reality applications. Augmented reality, to understand in a simple way, is that which uses the camera to frame the real world to which virtual elements are added.
For example, in the Pokemon GO game, you can frame a room in your home and see a Pokemon drawn in a corner or above the bed.
Since the iPhone, with iOS 11, improves AR technology, it is worth discovering the best applications to try that use augmented reality in a truly useful and practical way, with tools that we could use every day to make measurements or simulations in the real world.
READ ALSO: Best AR augmented reality games for iPhone and Android
1) MeasureKit
MeasureKit, is an app that makes the iPhone a ruler capable of measuring distances for anything. Unlike a normal ruler, MeasureKit provides precise dimensions not only for height and width, but also measures for angle, trajectory, level, square and more. Each of these measurements is mapped on the iPhone screen. This ruler allows, for example, to frame a corner of the house and actually check if a piece of furniture whose size we know can fit. A square the size of the furniture is drawn on the screen to be able to see it, virtually, on the screen as if it were really there in front of us.
2) Ikea Place
The application of Ikea uses augmented reality to virtually test the arrangement of furniture in the home. If you want to buy a new sofa, you can view it on the screen, frame the space in which we would like to put it and see it virtually on the screen as it really would be. With this app you can decide the colors and finishes without having to go to Ikea and directly to our home.
3) ModiFace
Edite is one of the best apps for putting on makeup and trying on makeup styles, which allows you to try beauty products virtually, on the screen of our phone, on our face.
You can then put on makeup by looking at yourself on the screen of your mobile phone, trying the effect of cosmetics and tricks before buying them or really applying them to the skin.
4) World Brush
This creative app allows you to virtually paint buildings, billboards and whatever we see around, without actually doing it.
The paintings on the streets, even if virtual, can be shared with other users of the application.
5) Morpholio Trace
This is another application to use at home, to plan a renovation and see the results of architectural changes.
6) LightSpace 3D
LightSpace is a free app that allows you to draw over the environment framed by the camera and take photos in augmented reality.
7) AR stack
This is a game, where you have to put one on top of the other bricks and create a tower without dropping it. The beauty is that the tower appears on the screen as if it were real in front of us.
8) Monster Battle
This is a strategy game reminiscent of Chess, where you can see the 3D game board and holographic images of the characters. The application simulates holograms using augmented reality to place the game board in real places.
9) ARZombi
This game (not yet released) is one of the first where you have to shoot and defeat the Zombies that are invading us home, in the true sense of the word. You will then see Zombies attacking us in the bedroom or in the living room, which will have to be killed.
NOTE: Speaking of Zombies and augmented reality, the game The Walking Dead: Our World is also under development
10) Magic Sudoku
Just frame any Sudoku board to see it solved on the iPhone screen.
11) Night Sky
Night Sky is one of those applications for looking at the sky and the stars, which exploiting augmented reality allows you to see all the constellations on the screen by framing the sky with the camera.
12) Holo AR
This is a fun app where you can add holograms to photos as if they were really there, in the form of people or other things that appear by framing reality with the camera.
13) Hoop Stars
This basketball game shows us a basket on the screen in augmented reality and we can throw a virtual ball to make a basket.
14) Google Maps, on iPhones that support ARKit technology, allows you to get directions on foot with augmented reality
For example, in the Pokemon GO game, you can frame a room in your home and see a Pokemon drawn in a corner or above the bed.
Since the iPhone, with iOS 11, improves AR technology, it is worth discovering the best applications to try that use augmented reality in a truly useful and practical way, with tools that we could use every day to make measurements or simulations in the real world.
READ ALSO: Best AR augmented reality games for iPhone and Android
1) MeasureKit
MeasureKit, is an app that makes the iPhone a ruler capable of measuring distances for anything. Unlike a normal ruler, MeasureKit provides precise dimensions not only for height and width, but also measures for angle, trajectory, level, square and more. Each of these measurements is mapped on the iPhone screen. This ruler allows, for example, to frame a corner of the house and actually check if a piece of furniture whose size we know can fit. A square the size of the furniture is drawn on the screen to be able to see it, virtually, on the screen as if it were really there in front of us.
2) Ikea Place
The application of Ikea uses augmented reality to virtually test the arrangement of furniture in the home. If you want to buy a new sofa, you can view it on the screen, frame the space in which we would like to put it and see it virtually on the screen as it really would be. With this app you can decide the colors and finishes without having to go to Ikea and directly to our home.
3) ModiFace
Edite is one of the best apps for putting on makeup and trying on makeup styles, which allows you to try beauty products virtually, on the screen of our phone, on our face.
You can then put on makeup by looking at yourself on the screen of your mobile phone, trying the effect of cosmetics and tricks before buying them or really applying them to the skin.
4) World Brush
This creative app allows you to virtually paint buildings, billboards and whatever we see around, without actually doing it.
The paintings on the streets, even if virtual, can be shared with other users of the application.
5) Morpholio Trace
This is another application to use at home, to plan a renovation and see the results of architectural changes.
6) LightSpace 3D
LightSpace is a free app that allows you to draw over the environment framed by the camera and take photos in augmented reality.
7) AR stack
This is a game, where you have to put one on top of the other bricks and create a tower without dropping it. The beauty is that the tower appears on the screen as if it were real in front of us.
8) Monster Battle
This is a strategy game reminiscent of Chess, where you can see the 3D game board and holographic images of the characters. The application simulates holograms using augmented reality to place the game board in real places.
9) ARZombi
This game (not yet released) is one of the first where you have to shoot and defeat the Zombies that are invading us home, in the true sense of the word. You will then see Zombies attacking us in the bedroom or in the living room, which will have to be killed.
NOTE: Speaking of Zombies and augmented reality, the game The Walking Dead: Our World is also under development
10) Magic Sudoku
Just frame any Sudoku board to see it solved on the iPhone screen.
11) Night Sky
Night Sky is one of those applications for looking at the sky and the stars, which exploiting augmented reality allows you to see all the constellations on the screen by framing the sky with the camera.
12) Holo AR
This is a fun app where you can add holograms to photos as if they were really there, in the form of people or other things that appear by framing reality with the camera.
13) Hoop Stars
This basketball game shows us a basket on the screen in augmented reality and we can throw a virtual ball to make a basket.
14) Google Maps, on iPhones that support ARKit technology, allows you to get directions on foot with augmented reality
