#8: Into the Metaverse
Download MP3After 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!
## Topics Discussed:
- 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
Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.
