First Apple killed the headphone jack — now it’s coming for your ruler, with new AR features

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Apple’s SVP of software Craig Federighi unveiled iOS 12 at WWDC 2018 today, and aside from massive performance upgrades, there’s a major new focus on augmented reality.

Apple is adding its own AR apps to iOS 12, built on its augmented reality platform ARKit that debuted at WWDC last year. 

One of the more exciting apps it showed of is called Measure, which will let you measure the length of any real world objects using just your iPhone. It’s essentially a digital tape measure that you can use by pointing your phone’s camera at an object. Read more…

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