This version of the iPhone ARKit is a forked version of the ARKit started on GitHub by Zac White.
- Not depended on a specific View Controller or the main App Delegate. (Completed)
- Ability to use both the Landscape and Portrait modes (Completed)
- Use CoreLocation coordinates and update location as the user moves around. (Completed.)
- Use CoreData to store coordinates (Not yet implemented.)
- Ability to add different type of views to augment. (Completed 12/29/11.)
- Ability to touch any of the augment views to handle other tasks. (Completed.)
- Add a Radar Control (Not yet implemented)
iPhone ARKit's APIs are modeled after MapKit's. For an overview of MapKit, please read the documentation for more information.
- The AR kit is targeting the iOS5 SDK. New features of the SDK include the following:
- Using the AVFoundation instead of the UIViewImagePickerControler.
- AR View is no longer a ModalViewController but now loaded into a view.
- Launches from a different view, and items are now clickable and will display their own View Controller.
- Improved perfomance.
- Many memory leaks seem to have been found. If you see any please create an issue and I'll take a look.
Removed the stacking feature that was added last month. It was not fully baked and was causing more problems than it was solving.
More information about the project can be found at the agilite software blog
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I would like to thank Zac White for starting the initial project and giving me the ability to fork his code and make the changes I see to make an awesome ARKit. I would also like to thank Gamaliel A. Toro Herrera, Jared Crawford and Mike Tigas for their contributes to the project that I pulled in from their forked projects.
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