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GeoGebra Augmented Reality

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52 pointsColinWright21 comments

Weird I tried searching the app directly in the store on my iPad and it didn't come up. Had to come here and go through this link to get to it.

It usually takes a while for the search to update after an app has been published.

Have you updated to iOS 11? I couldn't find it in the App Store without updating, since the app is only for iOS 11.

I'm on iOS 11 and had the same problem.

Yes I have updated. Just checked and I can see it now. Betting it was just a delay in the search results being updated like another reply suggested.

The coolest augmented reality setup is UCDavis Augmented Reality Sandbox, which uses a projector, an Xbox kinect, and sandbox that lets you wiggle your fingers to create rain, dig rivers and lakes, and see how water flows through an environment. My kids and I were blown away by it at a science festival last year. It's all open source and you could build your own for less than $500 I think:

https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/

The most impressive prototype I've seen in that direction (although it's not pure AR) was inFORM from MIT Media Lab in 2013: https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/

The current problem I have with AR implementations is they require the user to assist in a relatively slow scanning process of the immediate environment before recognizing geometry. This has to be done every time you use AR. The geometry recognition isn't all that great, can't handle occlusion, eats battery, etc.

Lots of potential, but even with ARKit as the current industry leader, it's still pretty rough. We need LIDAR for phones or something.

How, there is a Klein Bottle there

The floodgates of AR are about to open in the next few months. This is an interesting time.

Why "the next few months"? Is the tech all there - just waiting for the killer application?

Devs need some time to create the stuff. Might take a month or so to really start getting the feeling that AR has finally arrived.

Yep! It's time to finally buy that pesky IOS Developer License. For better of for worse, AR is here and we will be more glued to screens than ever.

For what it’s worth, if you don’t intend to publish on the App Store, you no longer need to buy a license. You can develop on your own devices with a (free) Apple ID.

…if you can stand recompiling and re-installing your apps every 7 days.

Are you sure that's true? I have an app on my phone that I last built and installed more than a month ago and it's working just fine.

In this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384430), multiple people claimed that 7 days was the limit.

I'd be surprised if the average developer's actively developed app sees so few changes that they have to reinstall every 7 days.

Maybe once in a while while you work on other stuff, or take a break, but doing a compile after 7 days of no compiles doesn't seem like a huge deal

I’ve looked at a few ar apps on the App Store and I genuinely don’t get the appeal. And I own an oculus. Staring at the world through a phone seeems like a terrible user interface.

I am pretty sure Apple will release some sort of lightweight glasses which just add those AR objects into your view. I doubt they except AR to become big thing just by using a tiny phone screen

That's exactly my point. I had developed an AR parking app and there is nothing weirder and more useless than this interface.

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