Coding at Home: May 29th, Augmented Reality with Reality Composer

Join us today on Twitch at 1pm, Irish time, for some more augmented reality!

AR Makr

I hope you’ve enjoyed the AR Makr sessions; they’ve really built an amazing tool for telling stories. It’s a great way to try out augmented reality for yourself, and the way they allow you to create your own is brilliant.

I’ve loved seeing the odd planets people have designed and being able to walk through their creations!

Reality Composer

For today’s session we’re going to go into Reality Composer a bit more. Reality Composer is Apple’s app for building out scenes.

A scene is comprised of an anchor in the real world: it could be a table top, a wall, an image, or a face. That thing, the table top, wall, image, or face, will be what we use to anchor the objects we want to add to our reality.

Reality Composer also lets us define behaviors for those objects and can have them interact with physics… but not just normal physics, like the regular gravity of your particular scene, you can define how strong or weak you want the pull of gravity to be!

There’s a great session from Apple called Get to know Reality Composer, which you can watch at https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/610.

More video sessions

We’ll go looking for some more great video sessions from Apple on this technology during today’s session. This will really pay off for us later this month, when all the Worldwide Developer Conference 2020 sessions start getting posted online.

Blast off!

So we’ll see you today at 1pm, when we’ll build our own rocket ship taking off, right in your very own living room (or wherever you’re watching this session)!