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The recent popularity of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) has put a spotlight on immersive technology-and our curriculum may never look the same again.

In the midst of all this enthusiasm, Apple has released a new resource for app developers-the ARKit-that has supercharged augmented reality for fields like entertainment, gaming, advertising and, of course, education.

The ARKit is often mistaken as a single app, but it's actually a tool for developers to create their own apps. Already, it has opened up the AR floodgates for newer Apple devices, and developers have been showcasing their new apps on social media using the hashtag #ARKit. The latest apps include technology that simulate realistic experiences, making AR more useful than ever in our daily lives.

While researching the possibilities, I've reached out to companies to see how they plan to make the technology that will one day rock our classrooms. In some instances, the app isn't intended solely for education, and I try to make recommendations to prevent inappropriate content from being included. By and large, I've found companies welcome feedback and ideas to make their programs more beneficial and successful for classroom use.

While testing some apps before the release of iOS 11, I was overwhelmed with the educational potential and benefit for our students contained in this technology. I found some incredible apps that blew the roof off of our classroom walls, as well as some that provided minimal benefit.

Here, I've made my list of top 10 recommended ARKit apps (as of today) that can drastically transform our lessons and the interactions with content. While I've tried to explain the value of these tools, there are some instances where you simply need to see it to believe it, so I've included my experience on video using some of the apps to provide further insights whenever possible.

#10 Magicplan (freemium) - Measure with AR

Capture the floor plan of your room or building by dropping pins in the corners of your space and rotating around. The app collects the dimensions and provides both the area and a blueprint model. Students can create their own custom classroom with furniture, doors and walls. Easily explain the difference between area, volume and surface area using this app to solidify the learning.

#9 Chalk (Free) - Get video support using AR

Interact with friends or colleagues using augmented reality. Video chats will never look the same as you support and collaborate on your screen that attaches to your space. Draw on the screen and include shapes to show off your model volcano or tutor a friend on their math work from afar in the video chat.

#8 Kouji / Storyfab (Free) - Make your own 3D character

Take your bitmoji to the next level by making them 3D. Use 3D characters that express your thoughts and ideas using expressions and animation. The Storyfab app allows you to create a scene in augmented reality to give multiple camera views. Bringing these characters in your spaces feels more convincing than a standard image and gives the students a chance to show their learning in a creative way.

#7 JigSpace (Free) - Explore learning in 3D

Learn in 3D using JigSpace with interactive objects for engaging lessons. Jump into history, science and more by exploring objects on your classroom tables. Students can virtually break apart the objects and identify specific parts or learn how each item functions. There are other libraries of 3D objects available, but JigSpace has made those objects more realistic using ARKit.

#6 Qlone (Freemium) - Scan 3D objects and share

Scan an object on a QR code mat using your device to create a 3D object. The app uses a simple process that rotates around an object in a circular motion, which uploads in the app in multiple formats for 3D printing, creating GIFs or even uploading into other AR/VR apps. Students don't need to create 3D objects for their projects from scratch, but instead can start with what they have.

#5 World Brush (Free) - Draw in 3D

Practice your artistic ability inside of your room by walking around and drawing in 3D using the World Brush app. When you hold the screen on the device and walk around, you're leaving a trail of digital paint. The app has several different brush settings that include basic colors, calligraphy, glowing ink and rainbow. The published drawings can be tracked by location and the most popular creations show up in the letter board shown as a trophy.

#4 Catchy Words (Free) - Challenge your problem-solving skills with letters

Catch flying letters that can be grabbed with your device and placed into boxes to form a word. The letters can create multiple letter words that challenge you to form words in 360 degrees. While the traditional Scrabble game places letters in a single row, moving and rotating around your room makes creating words much more difficult. Asking students to get up and move around to solve the problems is not just fun and challenging, but helps with long-term retention.

#3 Orb (Free) - Use AR to build in your real world

Build a digital world in your living room. Drop spheres, columns, blocks and characters into your space and walk around them. Each of the 3D objects are tethered to a specific location based on where you place them and can be adjusted by texture and color. In addition to creating 3D objects in your space, you can save the creation and upload it in an entirely new space. The opportunity to create augmented reality for our students has taken a huge leap forward, and the Orb app is the beginning of more creation tools.

#2 Human Anatomy Atlas ($1) - Turn your classroom into a human anatomy lab

Developer Visible Body has created the most immersive AR experience I've ever seen by letting you view the human body within your space and allowing you to literally cut through any part using your device. Before trying this app out with students, keep in mind that the app includes the full anatomy of a body and may not be completely appropriate for all ages.

#1 FigmentAR (Free) - Build portals to anywhere in your classroom

Using both augmented and virtual reality, Figment has struck gold for our classrooms. Using different windows, our educators and students can create a portal into a 360-degree image while walking around in our space. The five portals available are good experiences, but what makes this app my No. 1 pick is the option to upload your own 360-degree image to bring your students to life inside your AR images. My recommendation for Figment is to provide a subscription-based app that gives the users access to a collection of 360-degree images.

I'm sure you're feeling excited to begin using these tools and make sure to stay connected for more ARKit apps as they are released in the App Store. We're beginning to see this technology in the classroom and Google is making the same type of technology available soon to open the door for more AR in our classrooms.

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Everyone's interested in creating worlds in new virtual reality, with tools like Amazon Sumerian, but the real world still has a place. Google wants to take you on a tour of some of the world's most important historical sites, and you don't even have to stand up. Just head to the new Open Heritage site to see archival data on 27 important historical sites. You can even explore some of them in VR with the right hardware.

Google has collaborated with a non-profit called CyArk to create these 3D experiences. The goal of CyArk is to preserve locations of cultural significance, focusing especially on places that might not last much longer. CyArk isn't just taking photos, although that's part of it. Starting in 2003, it deployed lidar sensors and other scanning technology to make 3D models of historic locations. Open Heritage includes several dozen exhibits from CyArk, as well as some behind-the-scenes material that shows how the images and data were captured.

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The most impressive and immersive option is the full VR tour of the Bagan temples in Myanmar. Here, you can take a virtual stroll down the corridors and see examples of damage done by past earthquakes. The entire experience is narrated with additional videos of the scanning conservation process.

The best way to experience Bagan in Open heritage is with VR, but it'll work on your computer with a keyboard and mouse to move around. If you want to do VR, you'll need a phone and Chrome (or another browser capable of rendering high-resolution webGL content). Android phones and iPhones should both be able to use a simple Cardboard viewer for basic VR, but to get the full effect you'd need a Daydream-compatible Android phone and viewer. The image quality is better, and you have a remote with which to explore the temples.

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Since it was first announced at WWDC, Apple's ARKit has been open to developers to get a feel for the new platform. Now that iOS 11 is finally here, ARKit is available for anyone with an iPhone 6S or later, the iPad Pro, and the latest 9.7-inch iPad. In the time between the announcement and its official release yesterday, developers have used ARKit to create apps for big brands like The Food Network and AMC's The Walking Dead, as well as for smaller, but no less important amusements like this demo that does nothing but visualize AR tea cups resting on top of a good dog.

Whether it's existing apps that have added AR functionality with their updates, or fresh new apps introduced specifically for the platform, here are nine AR-ready iOS apps you should check out after updating to iOS 11 to get a feel for the feature's usefulness - and yes - pointless fun.

Giphy's already integrated into iMessage with its own keyboard app, and partnerships with Facebook and Twitter have helped spread its database of GIFs all over the internet. The Giphy World app takes that one step further to bring GIFs into your surroundings and letting you record video. You can also share entire scenes with friends who also have the app, who can then interact with your GIFs in an explorable space.

Given the smash success of Snapchat's AR hot dog DJ, I wouldn't be surprised if these GIF-integrated videos start popping all over your Instagram Stories.

It only makes sense that the snarky AI weatherbot would make the leap to AR, where its personality can really shine. Just don't poke its ocular sensor, or it'll snap at you. Update to Version 4.1.2 to get AR Mode, or buy it on the App Store for $3.99.

Strava, the social fitness-tracking app which already has more than 20,000 apps using its API, has added augmented reality to the mix. The latest app to use its API, Fitness AR, works by letting athletes visualize their routes on a 3D terrain map, which is powered by Mapbox. A screen-recording feature lets users pan and zoom through their routes to create a video, which can be saved to the camera roll and shared. It's now available on the App Store for $2.99.

Ikea, which has a track record of staying on top of trends with its smart lighting and oddly charming ASMR promotional videos, now has a new app for helping you visualize its furniture in your home. More than 2,000 Ikea products are currently available in the app, so you can let your inner Property Brother thrive and play interior decorator.

Wanna go a step further than Ikea Place? Housecraft is a furniture arrangement app from Sirvo, the studio behind the perfect puzzle game Threes. Instead of limiting objects to just Ikea furniture, there's a catalog of items that can be resized to fit the dimensions of your room, so it's more of a planning app.

There's also a "Disaster" feature, as any good app should have, in case you feel like destroying a room.

One of the most impressive, useful tools on the platform, MeasureKit can measure almost anything using just an iPhone or iPad camera. You can easily measure angles, check if something is perfectly level, or measure your room dimensions without crawling on the ground. The ruler tool is free, but all other tools are available for a one-time purchase of $2.99.

If you want to go beyond MeasureKit, TapMeasure is an app from Occipital, a company that's spent years working with augmented reality. One thing that sets TapMeasure apart from the glut of measurement apps that will surely flood the App Store in the coming days is that it can also create floor plans and even 3D room models, which can be exported as CAD files or be used in SketchUp. It's available starting today, and is free to download. Occipital will charge for some features, like the CAD file export, though.

The iPhone strategy game described as "Monument Valley meets Hitman Go" is adding an AR update so you can play the game in your living room or any wide-open space. An architectural puzzle game about changing perspectives seems perfectly suited for ARKit. It costs $3.99 to download.

This adorable puzzle platformer lets you tear up an alien world with a swipe of your finger to lead Fez-like characters back home. The latest update of the game includes exclusive new levels that are reimagined in an "IRL" box. (Confused dog on couch not included.)

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The Future of Augmented Reality Solutions

AR is a future within our grasp. Moreover, it's a future tech investors have sunk billions into and is already transforming how we buy, design, perceive, and think. AR is not just a flag planted in the future of commerce, it is the future of how we'll see.

With help from thought-leaders across the industry's fields of marketing, tech, art, design and medicine, we ask you to consider these seven predictions for the top future uses of augmented reality solutions.

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"The first thing to understand about AR is that it will change handheld computing," says Charlie Fink , a writer at , "first by making things we are already doing much better and more social. The camera will become the primary mobile interface for many augmented reality app developers as they design their product. FB, Google Maps, and Snapchat will certainly take advantage of it for their AR designs, as will Apple itself (here's another chance for them to revive Apple Maps).

Anyone who has ever assembled furniture, tried to figure out what is wrong with their car engine, or wondered more about a painting in front of them can easily understand the practical implications of having a virtual tutorial. Every sci-fi training scenario you've seen-from the X-men's proving grounds at the mansion, to the woman in the red dress from the Matrix-is one step closer with iOS ARKit and AR app development. Whether we're training doctors, mechanics or CIA agents, immersing them in virtual surroundings has never been so easy, thorough or practical with the implementation of mobile augmented reality.

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The World, Including Work, Will Become a Game Through AR Design

Everyone loves games! It's ingrained into our culture and brains from a ridiculously young age. Gamification will be a key to the adoption of augmented reality solutions: whether it's sales or customer-service tasks, introducing concepts like points, rewards and scoreboards can make learning AR extremely fun and addictive.

"Create a mobile AR system with scoreboards or game-like elements that react to objects or actions in the employee's real-world environment, and let top performers earn immediate rewards or accrue points that can be turned in for later rewards, such as gift cards or paid time off. Gamify sales and customer service training by using AR to place employees in realistic situations, and then reward correct answers and behaviors."
How does this translate into dollars and cents for brands and businesses?
Augmented Reality in Ecommerce Redefines Its Borders

Of course, search marketing is just the first step in a redefinition of what Ecommerce can be. Investors haven't sunk $1.7 Billion into the VR and AR design and development market for no reason. The potential is enormous (a 2015 study by Walker Sands concluded that 35 percent of consumers said they would shop more online if they could interact with products virtually, and that was two years ago! ). As a recent Entrepreneur explained, augmented reality solutions will make shopping more efficient, novel and enjoyable in the following ways:

Usefulness - Sephora's mobile augmented reality app uses ModiFace tech to let users take selfies and then virtually apply makeup to their faces before making a purchase decision.

Original ideas for the shopping experience - Apply Warby Parker's "try-on" functionality, virtually, to a myriad of products.

Customizability - Stores famous for customer service, like Nordstrom, could enlist AR app developers to design products that make their sales reps available while browsing, at point of sale, in the dressing "room," or even when matching a recently purchased item with one's wardrobe.

There is no end to the options: see your pizza cooking in the oven; have the chef take you through the tasting meal they designed; test to see whether the Barbie dreamhouse will fit in your child's room; try the turning radius of a new car for your driveway...these all add up to a better, more thorough shopping experience. By leveraging augmented reality solutions, the result is more satisfied customers, more delight in the experience, more goodwill towards brands. With augmented reality in Ecommerce,shopping online goes from passive to active. Discover the impact that augmented reality app development an have on your success by enlisting our agency's help in the design, development, and deployment. YML can assist you in becoming a leader in your industry with our award-winning AR mobile designs.

AR will let us see, try on, experiment with, and visualize the items we are looking to buy in a way that will render our current use of the word "search" redundant. You will be able to see inside the mall or the aisle, know the ripeness of the fruit, assess the chaos of the checkout line, before you ever leave your home. Life, especially even consumerist life, is about decisions, and they just got easier and better informed thanks to augmented reality in Ecommerce.

Partnering with a top augmented reality developer is the best way to ensure you provide customers with the ultimate Ecommerce experience, and leverage this technology to yield maximum engagement and profits.
Ultimately, it all comes down to the product, which gets better, too.
Industrial Design Gets a New Engine Thanks to Augmented Reality Developers

Augmented reality solutions will empower designers to ditch 3D models and actually sit inside the cars that they're creating.The cost of testing and experimenting drops dramatically. Designers can try more things; cars get better. Cheaper, too (less R&D equals a lower price sticker).

And this is just cars; imagine what can be done for shipping, nuclear facilities, electrical plants, large-scale farms and factories, machines that make other machines....

"When you look at for instance a 3D model inside a computer screen, you can't truly understand its size in relation to the objects around it or the space that it's supposed to be used in. . ." says Steven McMurray, senior product strategist at YML, ". . .AR will have an immediate impact in solving this problem."

AR will allow designers to stop imagining their product, and to see it and its applications, shortcomings, and potential--long before they begin to build it.
So, this is just about selling people better things? No, we're talking about...
AR Design Ensures Safer, Better, Working Conditions

Economies, local or global, that depend on natural resources and manufacturing look to factories, mines, plants and assembly lines as the vital arteries that carry their lifeblood. Augmented reality solutions will make these environments not only safer, but more productive, and better equipped to deal with accidents.

Everywhere from the robotics assisted assembly lines in Detroit, to mega-factories in China, to potash mines in rural Canada, workers will be safer, protected, and ultimately more productive thanks to the work of augmented reality developers.
That's great for workers, but what about the rest of us?
Cities Will Benefit from AR App Development; Communities, Too

Augmented reality app development will change and enhance this process. Police, fire departments and health practitioners-as well as those who direct them-could be made to "see" how such scenarios could play out through mobile augmented reality solutions. Naturally, this will help them respond more efficiently.

But there are larger implications for cities that leverage AR app development. After all, no matter how dire, emergencies are rare. Architects and city planners will confront and utilize and entirely new world of transportation grids and cityscape models that utilize AR design to demonstrate to clients, city councils, and other officials.
Are there any benefits for the world at large?
Higher-level Healthcare; Mobile Augmented Reality Provides Access For Millions

We're talking about IVs, the starting point of medical procedures. Imagine the possibilities with stents, brain surgery, ablations, ligament repair once the potential of augmented reality solutions in healthcare are harnessed. "The incredible consumer relevance for anyone being able to harness the power of AR for surgery is limitless," says McCleary. An injured ligament is a perfect, layered example: AR is employed by the doctor to enhance the success of the surgery, and then by the patient during physical therapy. Mobile augmented reality could be used to creates guides for exercises, helping to hasten repair time, and prevent against re-injury-all the while gamifying the process.

It's not just about the market either. She points to situations where a doctor is not available, where citizens or soldiers are forced to perform procedures. "Augmented reality actually shows you on a 3D image what to do, where to cut, how deep, what it should look like." Moreover, for the 5 billion people worldwide who do not have access to safe and affordable surgery, "The lifesaving capacity and true hope that AR brings is mind-blowing to say the least."

Conclusion

Augmented Reality is coming to every phone, app, and quite possibly, every surface and facet in our lives. It will redirect us, guide us, and help us make better choices, not only in a consumerist context, but in our lives.

New AR designs will change healthcare, production, design, marketing, advertising and the entire shopping experience. It will change how we learn and how we communicate. It will change everything. AR will become inseparable from our apps and phone functions. As augmented reality app development continues on its path towards even greater innovation, this technology will evolve beyond mobile devices. Then, it's true potential as a universal technology can be more fully realized by augmented reality developers, businesses, and individuals alike.

These changes are coming. It's time to prepare. And then innovate the next change. Contact YML today about how we can help develop and launch your AR design.

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The Future of Augmented Reality Solutions

AR is a future within our grasp. Moreover, it's a future tech investors have sunk billions into and is already transforming how we buy, design, perceive, and think. AR is not just a flag planted in the future of commerce, it is the future of how we'll see.

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AR's Best Weapon, iOS ARKit, Will Create a New, Mobile Augmented Reality World

"The first thing to understand about AR is that it will change handheld computing," says Charlie Fink , a writer at , "first by making things we are already doing much better and more social. The camera will become the primary mobile interface for many augmented reality app developers as they design their product. FB, Google Maps, and Snapchat will certainly take advantage of it for their AR designs, as will Apple itself (here's another chance for them to revive Apple Maps).

Anyone who has ever assembled furniture, tried to figure out what is wrong with their car engine, or wondered more about a painting in front of them can easily understand the practical implications of having a virtual tutorial. Every sci-fi training scenario you've seen-from the X-men's proving grounds at the mansion, to the woman in the red dress from the Matrix-is one step closer with iOS ARKit and AR app development. Whether we're training doctors, mechanics or CIA agents, immersing them in virtual surroundings has never been so easy, thorough or practical with the implementation of mobile augmented reality.

Wonder what's over the horizon? Your smartphone, and iOS ARKit can literally show you.
That sounds like a lot of tech and not a lot of fun, except....
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Everyone loves games! It's ingrained into our culture and brains from a ridiculously young age. Gamification will be a key to the adoption of augmented reality solutions: whether it's sales or customer-service tasks, introducing concepts like points, rewards and scoreboards can make learning AR extremely fun and addictive.

"Create a mobile AR system with scoreboards or game-like elements that react to objects or actions in the employee's real-world environment, and let top performers earn immediate rewards or accrue points that can be turned in for later rewards, such as gift cards or paid time off. Gamify sales and customer service training by using AR to place employees in realistic situations, and then reward correct answers and behaviors."
How does this translate into dollars and cents for brands and businesses?
Augmented Reality in Ecommerce Redefines Its Borders

Of course, search marketing is just the first step in a redefinition of what Ecommerce can be. Investors haven't sunk $1.7 Billion into the VR and AR design and development market for no reason. The potential is enormous (a 2015 study by Walker Sands concluded that 35 percent of consumers said they would shop more online if they could interact with products virtually, and that was two years ago! ). As a recent Entrepreneur explained, augmented reality solutions will make shopping more efficient, novel and enjoyable in the following ways:

Usefulness - Sephora's mobile augmented reality app uses ModiFace tech to let users take selfies and then virtually apply makeup to their faces before making a purchase decision.

Original ideas for the shopping experience - Apply Warby Parker's "try-on" functionality, virtually, to a myriad of products.

Customizability - Stores famous for customer service, like Nordstrom, could enlist AR app developers to design products that make their sales reps available while browsing, at point of sale, in the dressing "room," or even when matching a recently purchased item with one's wardrobe.

There is no end to the options: see your pizza cooking in the oven; have the chef take you through the tasting meal they designed; test to see whether the Barbie dreamhouse will fit in your child's room; try the turning radius of a new car for your driveway...these all add up to a better, more thorough shopping experience. By leveraging augmented reality solutions, the result is more satisfied customers, more delight in the experience, more goodwill towards brands. With augmented reality in Ecommerce,shopping online goes from passive to active. Discover the impact that augmented reality app development an have on your success by enlisting our agency's help in the design, development, and deployment. YML can assist you in becoming a leader in your industry with our award-winning AR mobile designs.

AR will let us see, try on, experiment with, and visualize the items we are looking to buy in a way that will render our current use of the word "search" redundant. You will be able to see inside the mall or the aisle, know the ripeness of the fruit, assess the chaos of the checkout line, before you ever leave your home. Life, especially even consumerist life, is about decisions, and they just got easier and better informed thanks to augmented reality in Ecommerce.

Partnering with a top augmented reality developer is the best way to ensure you provide customers with the ultimate Ecommerce experience, and leverage this technology to yield maximum engagement and profits.
Ultimately, it all comes down to the product, which gets better, too.
Industrial Design Gets a New Engine Thanks to Augmented Reality Developers

Augmented reality solutions will empower designers to ditch 3D models and actually sit inside the cars that they're creating.The cost of testing and experimenting drops dramatically. Designers can try more things; cars get better. Cheaper, too (less R&D equals a lower price sticker).

And this is just cars; imagine what can be done for shipping, nuclear facilities, electrical plants, large-scale farms and factories, machines that make other machines....

"When you look at for instance a 3D model inside a computer screen, you can't truly understand its size in relation to the objects around it or the space that it's supposed to be used in. . ." says Steven McMurray, senior product strategist at YML, ". . .AR will have an immediate impact in solving this problem."

AR will allow designers to stop imagining their product, and to see it and its applications, shortcomings, and potential--long before they begin to build it.
So, this is just about selling people better things? No, we're talking about...
AR Design Ensures Safer, Better, Working Conditions

Economies, local or global, that depend on natural resources and manufacturing look to factories, mines, plants and assembly lines as the vital arteries that carry their lifeblood. Augmented reality solutions will make these environments not only safer, but more productive, and better equipped to deal with accidents.

Everywhere from the robotics assisted assembly lines in Detroit, to mega-factories in China, to potash mines in rural Canada, workers will be safer, protected, and ultimately more productive thanks to the work of augmented reality developers.
That's great for workers, but what about the rest of us?
Cities Will Benefit from AR App Development; Communities, Too

Augmented reality app development will change and enhance this process. Police, fire departments and health practitioners-as well as those who direct them-could be made to "see" how such scenarios could play out through mobile augmented reality solutions. Naturally, this will help them respond more efficiently.

But there are larger implications for cities that leverage AR app development. After all, no matter how dire, emergencies are rare. Architects and city planners will confront and utilize and entirely new world of transportation grids and cityscape models that utilize AR design to demonstrate to clients, city councils, and other officials.
Are there any benefits for the world at large?
Higher-level Healthcare; Mobile Augmented Reality Provides Access For Millions

We're talking about IVs, the starting point of medical procedures. Imagine the possibilities with stents, brain surgery, ablations, ligament repair once the potential of augmented reality solutions in healthcare are harnessed. "The incredible consumer relevance for anyone being able to harness the power of AR for surgery is limitless," says McCleary. An injured ligament is a perfect, layered example: AR is employed by the doctor to enhance the success of the surgery, and then by the patient during physical therapy. Mobile augmented reality could be used to creates guides for exercises, helping to hasten repair time, and prevent against re-injury-all the while gamifying the process.

It's not just about the market either. She points to situations where a doctor is not available, where citizens or soldiers are forced to perform procedures. "Augmented reality actually shows you on a 3D image what to do, where to cut, how deep, what it should look like." Moreover, for the 5 billion people worldwide who do not have access to safe and affordable surgery, "The lifesaving capacity and true hope that AR brings is mind-blowing to say the least."

Conclusion

Augmented Reality is coming to every phone, app, and quite possibly, every surface and facet in our lives. It will redirect us, guide us, and help us make better choices, not only in a consumerist context, but in our lives.

New AR designs will change healthcare, production, design, marketing, advertising and the entire shopping experience. It will change how we learn and how we communicate. It will change everything. AR will become inseparable from our apps and phone functions. As augmented reality app development continues on its path towards even greater innovation, this technology will evolve beyond mobile devices. Then, it's true potential as a universal technology can be more fully realized by augmented reality developers, businesses, and individuals alike.

These changes are coming. It's time to prepare. And then innovate the next change. Contact YML today about how we can help develop and launch your AR design.

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Journey down the Colorado River to see the Grand Canyon as too few do, from the bottom up. Run its biggest rapids, explore its slot canyons, and meet the Navajo and Hopi activists working to protect sacred sites threatened by a controversial development.

Over 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt asked us to leave the Grand Canyon "as it is". Among the crown jewels of the United States' national park system, Grand Canyon is protected far beyond most public lands, but an unprecedented billion dollar development threatens to change the wilderness nature of the Grand Canyon forever.

Known as the Escalade Proposal, the plan outlines a tramway resort that would bring up to 10,000 tourists per day down to the Confluence, a place held sacred for millennia. Discover a story as big as the Canyon itself and learn why wild places need our protection now more than ever.

"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."

- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903

Journey down the mighty Colorado River to see the Grand Canyon as too few do, from the bottom looking up. Run it's biggest whitewater rapids, explore its narrow slot canyons, and meet the indigenous activists working to protect sacred sites threatened by a controversial development proposal that would bring as many as 10,000 people a day to the Confluence, one of the most sacred sites in the Canyon.

Also available on these platforms:
Samsung VR, Jaunt, Littlstar, VeeR, Vimeo and Facebook

After more than 3 years in the making, 2 river trips including 17 days on the Colorado River, 18 miles of hiking and 4 production trips to the region - the "as it is" project became a reality. Along the way, 360 cameras improved, stitching software got better and better, and stabilizing some of our biggest rapid shots became a possibility.

The VR film was the first of it's kind to show stunning views of the Grand Canyon from the Colorado River, 360 Labs was the first team to capture 360 video footage from the bottom of the canyon in the Summer of 2014.

We thank our interviewees for sharing their stories and insights. (listed in alphabetical order)

These organizations helped make "as it is" possible. We thank you for your support!

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