After a brief retrospective about our last app, Kanji Love, and a shout out to the recently departed Release Notes podcast, the team starts a discussion about our next project, which looks like it'll be focused on Augmented Reality. First, we ask ourselves, what is the relationship between AR, VR, and the "Metaverse" concept? Then we read the tea leaves of Apple's APIs to make an educated guess about future hardware and types of applications that would be useful to build. Finally, we spend time talking about some specific app ideas and end the episode with some bonus talk about recognizing hand gestures. Next time, we will decide what app we will build for season 2!
Introductions
Kanji Love Retrospective
Built for the learning experience
How could we make money, theoretically?
RIP Release Notes
What is the Metaverse?
Reading the AR Tea Leaves
What can Apple AR APIs do?
Big Funky Goggles VR
Apple Glass v1 Speculation
What app should we build?
AR Dance Instructor app
Record dance movements with body pose estimation APIs
Playback via an AR character
Mixamo.com for character asset
IRL to 3D Object Scanner app
Scan with the iPhone
Generate 3D object in Mac app
Export a file for 3D asset or AR
AR Graffiti app
Create a drawing and post it on a wall
AR Scavenger Hunt app
Smashing Crates animation FTW!
Next Steps
Look for/build prototypes to explore ideas
Steve: AR Dance Instructor
Kotaro: IRL to 3D Object Builder
Aaron: General AR research
Our next project should use SwiftUI as much a possible
Decide the project on next podcast
Bonus Discussion about hand gesture recognition
Not a Sponsor: ClipDish AR feature idea
getclipdish.com
Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.