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This year WWDC was focussed around performance and developer’s productivity. Apart from these two areas, the key focus was around AR (ARKit) and Machine learning enhancement in the platform. We also saw some convergence this year with some common theme - shared AR experience and Digital Well Being, similar to what   Google showcased in Google I/O this year.   Let’s quickly glance through some of the key updates in each area. iOS 12 Updates: Introduced CoreML 2 and ARKit 2.0 ARKit 2.0, includes a new USDZ file format developed with Pixar and available now for Adobe creative cloud. New Siri Shortcuts capability and app to directly perform app actions. CoreML 2 is faster and now its lot easy to train a model using Create ML Broad device compatibility. All device released from 2013 gets iOS 12 updates CarPlay now has support for third-party navigation apps Lots of performance improvement in the platform. Group FaceTime with up to 32 simultaneous people. Plus, it's inte

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Let's Explore Augmented Reality (AR) For me, the Science-fiction movie  “Iron Man”  was the first movie to demonstrate the possibilities of Augmented reality. And now, a decade later “Augmented Reality” came out from science-fiction movies and became the science-based reality. It became possible only because of some giant technology companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and etc. In September 2017, Apple released ARKit to implement AR for iOS and Google has released ARCore for Android this year. 2018 looks set to be the year where Augmented Reality (AR) fully enters the mainstream. I have heard many people saying “Augmented Reality” (AR) is the close cousin of “Virtual Reality” then what about “Mixed Reality” (MR), is it a hybrid son of both.. Very funny...Just kidding!!.  Is it because both have a similar word (Reality) in the end? No, Absolutely No. For quick information, what I feel is, Virtual Reality is fully computer-generated 3D artificial environment