This is logical because AR requires cameras to map the real world and overlay useful content and information.
ARKit, launched last week at WWDC, lets developers easily take advantage of the iPhone's camera and Visual Inertial Odometry to overlay AR content on the real world within their own apps.
The iPad Advertising Platform is said to support JavaScript, expandable ad units, animation, interstitials, transparent overlays of content and interaction.
Meanwhile, companies like Layer and Metaio have built platforms to help brands create experiences that bring real-world objects to life, not least print campaigns, by overlaying digital content via the view finder of a smartphone.
This will launch the "Map Apps" directory, which lets you overlay even more content on top of your map.
As part of this methodological approach, we propose difference-in-differences Content Overlay Maps ("maps of science") as a means to evaluate how program participants change their research focus over time relative to their national peers.
(Hololens's, I've learned, are headsets that overlay augmented, digital, content onto actual visual reality. [viii]).
The home screen is now a single bar of icons that overlays the background content.
This means that in order to provide digital content overlayed on the real world, these devices require the use of cameras.
