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It should be relatively simple with a QR code or similar physical marker in the real world.


With yeah I agree. Without though it seems difficult


why do you guys say this? Amazon's "View in your room" feature does a decent job of placing a furniture in AR. We can even walk around/towards it. And that tech is just Apple ARKit right?


I don’t think it’s that good. “Decent” is accurate


right.. so maybe Apple just thinks it is not good enough yet. They must be stretched on onboard compute capacity already.

And some might argue you just switch apps to find that "screen".

Personally I would put something interesting on the ceiling and look up at it.


Is it possible to track your position that accurately in an arbitrarily large space?




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