If you've been wondering about another practical, genuinely useful and indispensable real-life use case for ARKit beyond mapping and navigation, this might be it.
Finding your festival friends with ARKit
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Instagram launches new ways to reply with photos and videos in Direct
Instagram on Thursday announced new ways to reply with photos and videos in Direct that the company hopes will help users conduct fun conversation with their friends in a more visually appealing manner, including one feature that permits you to send a split-screen reply.
Claimed iPhone 8 wireless charging component hits the web
Following purported production images, technical drawings and sketchy photos depicting an alleged inductive wireless charging coil for iPhone 8, a pair of new images of a fully assembled wireless charging component have been posted to the Chinese micro-blogging service Weibo.
Unofficial iPhone 8 rendering used in McDonald’s PR stunt
Fast food giant McDonald's lit up social media around the world today with an interesting email campaign promoting its mobile-ordering app in Australia that wouldn't be worth a mention if it weren't for the fact that the ad is based on an iPhone 8 mockup image.
Instagram introduces comment threads
In order to make it easier to keep track of conversations and respond to a specific thread, Instagram today announced comment threading in its mobile app for iPhone and iPad.
ARKit will be awesome for navigation and maps
As a big sucker for augmented reality demos built with Apple's ARKit framework, I tirelessly search for them virtually (pun intended) every day on YouTube.
CNBC: new Apple Watch with LTE coming this fall alongside iPhone 8
Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE cellular connectivity as its key new feature will be announced alongside iPhone 8 and potentially other new hardware at an Apple media event in September, an unnamed source with knowledge of the matter told CNBC Tuesday morning.
Hands on with new HomeKit features in iOS 11
As we previously outlined, quite thoroughly, iOS 11 and watchOS 4 introduce many cool new features for HomeKit across iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch devices.
ProxySwitcher lets you toggle your favorite proxy server from the Status Bar
Some people resort to using proxy servers to maintain internet privacy and to get around website blocks at educational institutions and/or at work. On the other hand, anyone who’s ever used a proxy server knows how cumbersome it can be.
With a new jailbreak tweak called ProxySwitcher by iOS developer mbo42, toggling your favorite proxy server in iOS any time you’re connected to Wi-Fi just got a whole lot easier.
Get Me Home lets you summon a Lyft or Uber right from Spotlight
Sometimes you need to get home, and whether you’re too intoxicated because you had one too many drink or you’re just too tired to drive, both Lyft and Uber offer convenient transportation services to get you from point A to point B safely.
Both services have apps to make summoning transportation easy for you, but if you want to make things even easier, then you might like a new jailbreak tweak called Get Me Home by iOS developer Tom Effects.
Hands on with iOS 11 beta 6: more icon tweaks, new unlock/AirPods animation & more
iOS 11 is still a bit away from its public release this fall, but as we approach that deadline, betas are now starting to roll out closer and closer to one another.
Facebook begins rolling out Trending News section in iPhone app
Facebook has begun rolling out a brand new Trending News section within its iPhone and iPad app for users in the United States, TechCrunch reported on Monday.