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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

“Massive store, where can I find that one screw I need?” The accuracy of the navigation and indoor location is insane.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

The transition from maps to AR when you hold the phone up is still one of the best interactions we’ve built 😍

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 years

Here’s a peek at what I’ve been working towards for the past few months. Introducing Retail AR, from Dent Reality.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

Me: I’m not gonna get a new iPhone I don’t need one Apple:

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 years

Weird issue I found with the notch on the new MacBook Pro

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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4 months

Today we signed a deal with a global retailer to roll out to every store. Good start to the week!

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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7 years

ARKit + CoreLocation, part 2

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

Took me 4 years to build a startup that does this. Then we sold it to retailers to put in their stores. And we have some big news coming next year 👀

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 years

Introducing Compass Mode. Hold the phone up for AR, down for compass.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

Genuine customer reaction while testing in-store AR navigation 😂😍

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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7 years

I’ve been working on an AR Location toolkit for developers, built on top of ARKit. I’m starting with Point Of Interest experiences.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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4 years

Can't unsee.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

This is the nicest store I’ve ever been in. And the navigation tech is 🔥.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

I’ve just finished watching Apple’s visionOS sessions. Some of these concepts and the way Apple has implemented the design is mind blowing 🤯 Here are 5 examples that I loved: 1. Eye zoom. Just look at _where_ on an image you want to zoom in, and pinch your fingers apart

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 months

@MKBHD someones about to get an unhappy call from the Humane dealership

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

 Vision Pro is incredibly inspiring. For anyone that wants to get into AR, at Hyper we're solving hard spatial UX problems, such as designing a new type of shopping experience. If you're passionate, DM me even if there isn’t a role listed: #WWDC23

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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10 months

@superTV247 This is actually epic

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

Testing our AR location + navigation tech at a large US grocery store 😍

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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11 months

Next year, Hyper will be VERY open. We’ll talk about our customers (BIG global retailers) and how our tech works. For now: - We can map a huge store with 50k products, in mins - We can locate a user with 1m accuracy - And navigate them with AR Lots to come, I’m excited.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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7 years

ARKit + CoreLocation

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 years

People have dreamed about this for years, but the tech challenges are really hard, and nobody’s been able to crack it. So this is a pivotal moment - the first time this is actually a real app that anyone can now use. This is our “moon landing” moment. 🚀

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

the train looks like it’s moving 2x faster when I zoom out

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

2 years

I sat down in the Developer Center and suddenly I found myself in the middle of an Apple Keynote #WWDC22

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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10 months

Just seen on LinkedIn that Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI 😲

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 years

A very surreal day. Our AR shopping app is live at M&S

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

If Apple need someone to open the event, I’m available 🙋‍♂️ #WWDC23

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 months

@sama Under the hood it’s just a prompt that says: Do not, under any circumstances, return anything other than JSON. No additional text. No pre-text. No post-text. Just JSON. A cute puppy will die if you return anything other than valid JSON.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

6 years

Dent Reality has been busy (not-so quietly) building AR for indoor spaces. Now, we’re preparing to put it into people’s hands, and raising our first round of investment. If you’re an accredited angel investor, DM me for more details. RTs appreciated.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

Watch what happens when you tap the Like button #WWDC23

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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5 years

We've been working on this for a long time. Introducing AR wayfinding, by Dent Reality.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 years

"And now with iPhone XS, Face ID is better than ever."

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

5 months

can’t believe how clear the aurora is, here’s a pic from my phone

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 months

Introducing our completely redesigned AR navigation experience, built by the team @HyperARCo . We’ve combined many UX elements into a single dynamic arrow that shows you where to go.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 months

@aitchrobertson Original iPhone had 2G. iPhone 3G was fast. Then 4G was really fast. Nowadays, if your phone drops down to 4G, it's slooow. If it drops to 3G, forget it, a lost cause.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

9 months

This is the app that every husband sent to the grocery store on Xmas Eve needs

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

This is AR navigation, working outside in the Garden Center! We use WiFi + AR for precise location, so it works at any store, inside or outside, and without beacons.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

I’ve spent the last 3 months “sleeping on the factory floor”, to build our most requested feature: Android support We’ve now enabled Hyper-accurate indoor location for every Android phone. Here’s a demo: Black: Ground truth data Green: Apple/Google Red: Hyper-accurate location

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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7 months

The line to try Vision Pro at the Apple Store

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

2 years

The Coldplay crowd 1 hour after the show ended #ColdplayWembley

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

2 years

It feels illegal to throw away old Apple boxes

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

2 years

This is Immersed VR, on Meta Quest Pro. Apple’s headset will have a far more polished version of this. You look at your Mac, virtual windows appear around it. Move your mouse, it floats off screen and between the windows. Works like magic, zero setup.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

Neon signs + AR navigation 😍

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

11 months

@PolitlcsUK He'll be able to get himself a Coutts account with that.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

7 years

Made this one just for fun. 😄 This is Star Wars in ARKit. More of what’s possible with iOS 11.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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4 years

Introducing in-store AR navigation from @DentReality , to help you find everything on your shopping list.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

Apple’s latest WWDC artwork is definitely hinting at a headset

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

I’ve been working on a new open-source project for Apple’s RealityKit. Introducing Mirador. Mirador makes it easy to build impressive “Point of Interest” AR experiences, from anywhere in the world. Coming soon. Demo 1: Miradouro da Senhora do Monte, Lisbon.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

So many people have asked if Apple has sent me a headset. They have not. And if they had, I could never admit that they have. They haven’t. Sent from Reality Pro.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

2 years

A magic iPhone gadget I got for Christmas: Belkin magnetic phone holder, turns your iPhone into a Mac webcam. BUT also... put a sheet of paper in front of your computer, and it shows a topdown view. 😱

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

2 years

Accidentally discovered my favourite Raycast feature.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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7 months

@josh_hops need a man who looks at me this way

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

How will Apple’s new realityOS look and feel? Both of these prototypes were designed by people who are now Human Interface Designers at Apple #WWDC23

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

Yes, we ( @DentReality ) built the maps, AR and location tech 🔥. No beacons! We're hiring on web + Android: And retailers can sign up today:

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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5 years

Always innovating towards a killer use case for AR, we’ve revamped our Indoor AR navigation experience. These cute little gems will now guide your way. Works great in large buildings with tight corridors.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

Mirador is now open-source! Mirador makes it easy to build impressive point-of-interest experiences with Apple’s new AR framework, RealityKit. Demo: Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

First thing I'm going to do with visionOS is make my own 3D app icons 🤩 Apple have made this really easy - provide 3 transparent square images, don't add your own 3D effects etc.. Apple will generate specular highlights, shadows and depth in real-time based on focus.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

June 6 2022 Expect delays Event at Apple Park

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

😱 its happening

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

“What’s that wallpaper?” “This is Lake Tahoe” macOS Tahoe, calling it now. #WWDC22

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

When we were designing the AR navigation experience, we built a fun little tool to let us play with the size/shape/bounce of the guidance dots, to find what felt right

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

Every time I hear "LLMs work by predicting the next word, 1 word at a time", I think of this.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 months

@raywongy can't figure out if this is sarcastic or not

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

6 months

@MKBHD Like the guy who lent you the Fisker. “His name is MKHBD he’s like a famous guy”

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 months

Humane started hyping themselves back in 2017 -- super secretive, not even investors had seen what they were building. It's a LLM with a projector, powered by OpenAI. That tech only became possible in the last few years. So what were they planning to ship before that?

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6 months

Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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4 months

If Apple need someone to open the keynote, I'm available 🙋‍♂️ #WWDC24

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

2 years

I went a little bit extra with editing myself into an Apple keynote 😶

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

New demo: Live in-store navigation with maps, AR and precise location 3 breakthroughs at Hyper which make this possible: • Precise indoor location tech that uses wifi and AR • AI for automated store mapping • Spatial UX that merges maps and AR

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

5 years

Indoor AR navigation speed run! It's taken innovations in mapping, indoor positioning and AR experience to arrive here. I’ve written a blog post to explain how it all works:

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

New feature: Recipes Pick a recipe (M&S have loads of great ones), then find all your ingredients in-store!

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

1 year

The price of Vision Pro is a fairly boring conversation. Apple just revealed 6 years worth of R&D, innovation across hardware and software, and an entirely new product category, in 1 go. That's interesting to talk about.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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4 years

Apple is not putting this amount of work into incredibly impressive AR visuals.. just so that you can place furniture and play Pokemon. This is their next platform.

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Ok, this is the shiny sphere test. Real-time Environmental lighting, 60fps, no delay + a little bit of occlusion with the flowers! Time for some crazier shapes. Nice work @apple #arkit #devteam #AugmentedReality #ipadpro2020 #wwdc20

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

@AndrewHartAR

5 years

Indoor AR navigation, from Dent Reality, guiding me from a train station concourse to a store in a shopping mall. (Yes this is real. I feel like I’m living in the future some days 😅)

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

5. Can Apple make typing on a virtual keyboard a _better_ experience than a physical one? Maybe? visionOS does support using a physical keyboard too, but the virtual keyboard is very well designed - raised keys, dynamic hover-highlighting to guide your finger, audio feedback.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

First public preview of Mirador, my new AR location library. I showed it to some tourists in Greenwich and got their reaction 🤩 Open-sourcing this weekend.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 years

He did that third generation dirty 😭

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 years

@ChristianSelig it should but let’s not talk about that

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 years

1 year of ARKit

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

Steve Jobs announces Apple Reality glasses 👓

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

3. If your fingers control your mouse pointer, how do you easily move to the other side of the screen, without having to reach all the way across? Well this is how - look and tap.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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5 years

Live AR people pixelation is absurdly impressive. This is a free app on the App Store:

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

Thank you for all the love 🙏. We built the AR interface, maps, navigation and indoor location tech. Our location tech is powered by wifi and AR. Now rolling out at scale.

Hyper | Indoor location that actually works

Revolutionize your customer experience with the world's leading indoor mapping and location technology. Our platform is trusted by the largest retailers globally to enhance the shopping experience...

www.hyperar.com

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 months

@BBCPolitics @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer Assume next Sunday will be Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer?

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

Telling my mum about the Apple event lol

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

2. "You had me at scrolling" - the famous quip someone made to Steve Jobs when he demoed the iPhone. With visionOS, Apple uses your eyes and hands to control the entire interface in a new, intuitive way.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

4. Dynamic scale content, aka “screen scale”. This technique is used in video games, to make text legible even if its positioned really far away. The user can move windows closer or further away, and it still appears at exactly the size it was designed.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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1 year

There's way more detail in the sessions - 3D app icons, voice control etc. Here are 3 I'd recommend most: - Principles of spatial design - Design for spatial input - Design for spatial user interfaces Follow @AndrewHartAR for AR insights + innovation

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 months

@TMZ she looks very responsive for someone in a coma

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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4 years

We wanted to use an iOS Maps-style drawer in our AR navigation app, but the libraries available for this have always been complex, and caused UI lag issues. So we’ve created Panels UI - it’s fast, elegant and simple. Supports multiple layers, swiping and different panel heights.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 months

The wildest thing I've done this year: Fly to NYC, pay $3500 for a Vision Pro, then fly back to London.. I've been using the headset every day for more than a month now, so here's my Vision Pro review. My background: - I built the largest open-source projects for both of

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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8 years

@thetigersez “ooh, i can use this as an excuse to be a shitty person!”

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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4 years

Tap on the Apple event logo on iOS, and you can see it in AR

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 months

First I built the AR navigation tech that you see in Apple/Google Maps. Now Hyper is building the same tech for stores. Announcing a new retail partner soon 👀

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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7 years

Just came out to my parents.. aged 26 😅

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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11 months

I love Satya Nadella’s positivity. Inspiring to see the optimism from someone who has to use Microsoft Teams every day.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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2 years

The new wristbands for Coldplay shows, which they hand out when you walk in, are somehow able to light up in formation to draw a heart. No idea how they've done this - any ideas what technology they're using or how it works?

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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3 years

Some really exciting AR news - we @DentReality have raised $3.4m to build the digital layer for the physical world! Here's a demo of what we've built so far...

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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4 years

Highlighting a window in Mission Control. Can't unsee.

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Andrew Hart ᯅ

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6 years

Lots of devs ask me how to draw AR navigation paths.. There's actually no built-in way to do it, you'd have to code your own low-level 3D geometry. But no longer! My friend @MaxxFrazer has just open-sourced his SCNPath class. AR paths for all!

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