如果您是数百万Pokémon Go爱好者中的一员，他们在过去两年中一直在寻找并拍摄通过智能手机屏幕叠加在现实世界中的异常生物的照片，那么您对增强现实 (AR) 非常熟悉。
对于那些不熟悉 AR 的人来说，它是一种通过设备界面将静态或动态计算机生成的图像叠加在您对现实世界的看法上的技术，使图像具有成为现实世界一部分的效果。
除了(Beyond)Pokémon Go这样令人上瘾的游戏之外，增强现实应用程序正在迅速改变人们的思维方式和学习方式，为我们提供可视化的可能性。借助 AR，我们获得了一个全新的世界视角。
我们可以更快、更清晰地做出决策，并且我们可以轻松理解以前需要通过艰巨的知识途径才能获得的复杂信息。
有数百个适用于 iOS 的增强现实应用程序在从信息消费到运动再到设计等各种环境中提供这些好处。但由于可用的 AR 应用程序如此之多，因此往往会有很多重叠。这里有 10 个值得下载的 iOS。
1. Bookful（免费提供应用内购买）
如果您有孩子、照看孩子或教年幼的孩子，Bookful是为 iOS 下载的完美增强现实应用程序。您可以在应用程序内购买交互式书籍或访问数量有限的免费书籍，以 3D 或 AR 形式阅读。
您可以滑动页面、放大和缩小、旋转和移动书籍，因为它们在您的设备屏幕上栩栩如生，人物和其他故事元素会从虚拟页面中弹出。
很棒的是，孩子们也可以很容易地自己管理应用程序，这要归功于可以播放书籍的叙述版本。除了阅读书籍或旁白书籍外，孩子们还可以根据书籍内容玩游戏，以帮助他们更好地理解故事并发展他们的认知能力。
2. CARROT Weather（4.99 美元，可在应用内购买）
他们不会无缘无故地将CARROT Weather称为“功能强大的天气应用程序”。这个应用程序将您智能手机上的气象学提升到一个全新的水平。它不仅提供您期望从任何天气应用程序中获得的深入天气数据，而且还向您显示天气模式并提供一个 AR 选项，该选项提供您可以滑动浏览和截屏的概览。
但是，CARROT Weather最棒的地方在于它的娱乐性。该应用程序注入了诙谐的幽默，并有自己的脾气暴躁的角色，称为OCULAR_SENSOR，它会用俏皮话来回应你的行为。
该应用程序还添加了一些游戏化功能，例如秘密地点——找到(Secret Locations—find)该应用程序在其全球地图上“隐藏”的所有 51 个秘密地点——以及成就(Achievements)，当你第一次体验到 10 英里/小时或更大的风速时完成. 总的来说，CARROT Weather是一款支持增强现实的应用程序，您永远不会觉得无聊。
3. Golf Scope（免费提供付费高级选项）
高尔夫是您可以玩多年但从未有太大进步的游戏之一。它需要运动能力和(and )分析敏锐度。后者可能是大多数人永远做不到的地方，如果只是因为实际上需要时间来了解风如何影响驱动器，或者斜坡如何影响推杆。在这里，像Golf Scope这样的增强现实应用程序可以真正帮助您提升游戏水平。[注意：应用不再可用]
Green Map等功能可向您显示在推杆果岭上以 3D 形式显示的轮廓、海拔和距离，而Aim Target则向您显示瞄准的位置。
其他功能可帮助您测量任何果岭的速度、休息位置，以便您排列完美的推杆以及推杆的功率。其他功能也增强了您的推杆游戏。高级订阅可让您访问此增强现实应用程序提供的所有技术。
4. INKHUNTER（免费提供付费广告移除选项）
考虑纹身？决定要得到什么已经够难的了。决定从哪里获得它可能同样困难。确保你想要的东西在你想要的地方看起来不错是最大的困难。
INKHUNTER是一款增强型应用程序，可应对这些挑战。它允许您从其图像数据库中选择纹身或上传您自己的图像，然后调整透明度和颜色。
设置完成后，INKHUNTER将通过您的智能手机屏幕将图像叠加到现实世界中，允许您在皮肤上定位和调整纹身图像的大小。
当您将图像放在您想要的位置时，捕获屏幕截图以分析纹身在您身上的外观。另一个选项允许您通过在您的皮肤上绘制三条线来制作图像 3D，INKHUNTER可以识别并用作弹出图像的基础。
5. iScape（免费提供应用内购买）
在园艺床上的几棵灌木周围扔一些覆盖物并收工是一回事。但大多数人在实际设计家庭或办公室周围的景观时都会采取这种做法，除非他们聘请有技能的专业人士或公司为他们做这件事。
iScape是一款增强现实应用程序，它使任何景观美化爱好者都能从美学和后勤的角度真正了解他们在做什么。
iScape 将 AR 与设计工具结合使用，让您可以在您想要美化或种植的区域用花卉、灌木和树木勾勒和可视化设计。它提供了一个包含数千种植物的数据库，您可以从中插入您的室外或室内环境。
它还提供有关每种植物的深入信息，因此您可以了解您正在使用的植物，包括它需要多少光照或什么样的土壤，以及它如何生长以及如何种植和饲养它。
6. JigSpace（免费）
从教科书中了解世界是如何运作的从来都不是最好的方法。体验这个世界，与之互动，有。JigSpace是一款增强现实应用程序，可为您的手机带来这种体验。
它需要复杂的主题——地球层、细胞的一部分，甚至宇宙飞船和微波——并通过 AR 为您提供对它们的 3D 分析。这些在应用程序中称为“夹具(Jigs)”。随着JigSpace对Jig的深入研究，您可以逐步了解它的构成，您可以看到事物最详细的内部结构并了解其组成部分。
JigSpace说，这将学习带入了现实世界，不仅可以帮助您了解更多信息，还可以帮助您比通过查看书中的图表更好地了解您正在学习的内容。
目前，这款增强现实应用程序在其数据库中提供了有限数量的Jig(Jigs)，但很快您将能够创建自己的Jig(Jigs)并与他人分享，自然而然地增加了用于 AR 的JigSpace 3D 模型库，需要学习到一个新的水平。
7. PLNAR（免费，然后按使用付费和付费升级选项）
无论您是DIY房主、持牌承包商还是保险理算员，PLNAR都是完美的增强现实应用程序，用于测量室内空间并实时创建 3D 模型。
使用 AR 技术，PLNAR允许您通过手机捕获空间的尺寸并指定门窗等事物，而不是使用激光或卷尺。
然后，您拍摄的照片或您生成的 3D 模型在多种情况下都很有用，例如向客户展示您将如何帮助他们获得所需的空间，以便为保险索赔创建更准确的估计和调整。
通过付费升级到PLNAR Pro、Team或Enterprise选项，您可以获得更多功能，例如品牌报告和API webhook 选项。
8. 天空指南（免费）
你有没有在夏夜躺在草坪上仰望星空？也许如果你住在农村，但如果你住在城市，你就不太可能看到任何重要的东西。
即使你能看到我们头顶上巨大的恒星和行星的宇宙尘埃，也很难知道你在看什么，除非你是天文学家。Sky Guide是一款增强现实应用程序，可帮助您随时随地从任何角度查看和了解宇宙中漂浮的事物。
无论您将设备指向哪个方向，Sky Guide都可以向您展示星星和星座，并告诉您我们对它们的了解。除了应用程序核心的 AR 功能外，Sky Guide还会在后台播放轻松的氛围音乐，为您提供超凡脱俗的体验。
附加功能(Extras)包括空间站轨迹跟踪、穿越时空并查看宇宙中物体如何移动的选项、有关宇宙的新闻等等，这将使您立即成为一名业余天文学家。
9.补品（免费）
当人们决定接受学习演奏音乐的挑战时，他们经常使用某些乐器——吉他、小提琴、鼓。但是，当然，钢琴是最受欢迎的。
这很容易涉足，但要掌握却很难。Tonic是一款增强现实应用程序，可以让学习钢琴变得更容易一些。
该应用程序的 AR 技术可让您查看 130 多个带有蓝点的钢琴和弦，并在您的钢琴键上放置蓝点，这些和弦有降调或升调模式以及三个八度音阶可供选择。
Tonic的和弦词典可让您在其数据库中查看和弦的符号并告诉您它们的根音。它适用于 88、76、61、49 和 25 键钢琴，因此无论您使用什么来学习这种古典乐器，Tonic都是一款增强现实应用程序，可以帮助您理解您正在尝试的象牙创造美妙的声音。
10. Wayfair（免费）
如果您认为宜家(IKEA)风靡一时，请再想一想。Wayfair提供世界上最大的家居用品选择，提供超过 700 万种产品，您可以通过其购物应用程序访问所有这些产品。
更好(Better)的是，该应用程序提供了一种增强现实功能，称为房间内的 3D(Room)视图(View)，可让您在任何空间查看真人大小的产品版本。最重要的是，您可以使用Room Planner(Room Planner)在虚拟房间中安排产品，使您能够在应用程序中设计理想的空间，然后在您自己的家、办公室或其他空间中将其变为现实。
该应用程序的其他好处包括快速、移动优化的结帐；Shop the Look的专业设计灵感；以及使用创意板(Idea Boards)保存创意的方法。
因此，如果您想要更新空间，请在前往家居用品店之前三思而后行——跳上Wayfair，并开始使用这款 AR 应用程序想象您的空间实际外观与您想要的家具和装饰的外观。
你准备好迎接 AR 了吗？
对许多人来说，AR 是一个新概念，他们要么没有花时间探索，要么认为在他们的生活中并不特别有用——普通(normal )的iOS 应用程序还不够好吗？
但是许多增强现实应用程序确实提供了一种新的有用的体验，可以增强(augments)您的日常习惯和仪式，或者提供一种在各种环境中扩展您的好奇心和知识的方法。从这 10 款值得下载的 iOS 增强现实应用开始，看看 AR 将你带向何方。
您认为还有其他适用于 iOS 的增强现实应用程序值得下载吗？在Twitter 上(Twitter)让我们知道它们是什么以及为什么您认为它们有用。
10 Augmented Reality Apps Available for iOS Worth Downloading
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real world.
Beyond addictive games like Pokémon Go, augmented reality apps are quickly changing how people think and learn by taking on the job of visualizing possibilities for us. With AR, we gain a whole new perspective of the world.
We can make decisions faster and with more clarity, and we can easily understand complex information that previously required a daunting path to knowledge.
There are hundreds of augmented reality apps for iOS that
are providing these benefits across a range of contexts, from information
consumption to sports to design and more. But because there are so many AR apps
available, there tends to be a lot of overlap. Here are 10 for iOS worth
downloading.
1. Bookful (free with in-app
purchases available)
If you have kids, babysit or teach young children, Bookful is the perfect augmented reality app to download for iOS. You can make in-app purchases of interactive books or access a limited number of free books to read in 3D or AR.
You have the ability to swipe pages, zoom in and out, rotate and move books as they come to life on your device’s screen, with characters and other story elements popping out of the virtual pages.
What’s great is kids can also manage the app pretty easily themselves thanks to an option to play narrated versions of the books. In addition to reading or having the books narrated, kids can also play games based on the content of the books to help them understand the stories better as well as develop their cognitive skills.
2. CARROT Weather ($4.99 with
in-app purchases available)
They don’t call CARROT Weather “the crazy-powerful weather app” for nothing. This app takes meteorology on your smartphone to a whole new level. Not only does it provide deep weather data you would expect from any weather app, but it also shows you weather patterns and offers an AR option that provides overviews you can swipe through and screenshot.
But what might be the best thing about CARROT Weather is how entertaining it is. The app is injected with witty humor and has its own curmudgeonly persona called OCULAR_SENSOR that responds to your actions with quips.
The app also spices things up with gamification features like Secret Locations—find all 51 secret locations the app has “hidden” on its global map—and Achievements, which are completed when you experience things like winds of 10 mph or greater for the first time. Overall, CARROT Weather is an augmented-reality-enabled app you’ll never grow bored with.
3. Golf Scope (free with paid
premium option available)
Golf is one of those games you could play for years yet never improve much at. It takes athletic prowess and analytic acumen. The latter is probably where most people never get it right, if only because it actually takes time to learn how wind affects a drive, or how a slope affects a putt. Here is where an augmented reality app like Golf Scope can really help you up your game. [Note: app no longer available]
Features like Green Map show you contours, elevation, and distance displayed in 3d on the putting green, while Aim Target shows you where to aim.
Other features help you measure the speed of any green, where the break is so you can line up a perfect putt and how much power to putt with. Other features augment your putting game as well. A premium subscription gives you access to all of the technology this augmented reality app provides.
4. INKHUNTER (free with paid
ad-removal option available)
Thinking about getting a tattoo? Deciding what to get is hard enough. Deciding where to get it can be just as difficult. Making sure what you want will look good where you want it is the biggest struggle.
INKHUNTER is an augmented app that cuts through these challenges. It lets you select tattoos from its image database or upload your own images, then adjust the transparency and color.
Once you have that set, INKHUNTER will superimpose the image onto the real world through your smartphone screen, allowing you to position and resize the tattoo image on your skin.
When you have the image just where you want it, capture a screenshot to analyze how the tattoo would look on you. Another option allows you to make the image 3D by drawing three lines on your skin that INKHUNTER recognizes and uses as a base from which the image pops out.
5. iScape (free with in-app purchases
available)
It’s one thing to throw some mulch around a few bushes in a gardening bed and call it a day. But most people kind of wing it when it comes to actually designing the landscaping around their home or office unless they hire a professional or company with the skills to do it for them.
iScape is the augmented reality app that empowers any landscaping dilettante to actually understand what they’re doing from an aesthetic and logistical standpoint.
iScape uses AR with design tools that let you outline and visualize designs with flowers, shrubs and trees in areas where you want to landscape or plant. It offers a database of thousands of plants from which you can insert into your outdoor or indoor setting.
It also provides in-depth information on each plant so you know what you’re working with in terms of how much light or what kind of soil it needs as well as how it grows and how to plant and raise it.
6. JigSpace (free)
Learning how the world works from a textbook has never really been the best method. Experiencing the world, interacting with it, has. JigSpace is an augmented reality app that brings that experience to your phone.
It takes complex subject matter–layers of the earth, parts of the cell, even spaceships and microwaves–and gives you a 3D analysis of them through AR. These are called “Jigs” in the app. As JigSpace delves into a Jig, giving you a step-by-step breakdown of what it’s made of, you get to see the most detailed innards of a thing and learn its parts.
This brings learning into the real world, JigSpace says, helping you not just learn more but also understand what you’re learning better than you would have by looking at a diagram in a book.
Right now, this augmented reality app provides a limited number of Jigs available in its database, but soon you’ll be able to create your own Jigs and share them with others, naturally growing the JigSpace library of 3D models available in AR that take learning to a new level.
7. PLNAR (free, then pay-as-you-go and paid
upgrade options)
Whether you’re a DIY homeowner, a licensed contractor, or an insurance adjuster, PLNAR is the perfect augmented reality app for getting measurements of interior space and creating a 3D model of it in real-time.
Using AR technology, PLNAR allows you to capture the dimensions of a space and specify things like doors and windows through your phone, rather than using a laser or tape measure.
The photos you then capture or the 3D models you generate are useful in several contexts, from showing a client how you’ll help them with the space they have to create more accurate estimates and adjustments for insurance claims.
By paying to upgrade to PLNAR Pro, Team, or Enterprise options, you get even more functionality, like branded reports and API webhook options.
8. Sky Guide (free)
Do you ever lie out on the lawn on a summer night and look up at the stars? Maybe if you live in a rural area, but if you live in a city, it’s unlikely you’ll see anything significant.
And even if you can see the vast cosmic dusting of stars and planets above us, it’s not easy to know what you’re looking at, unless you’re an astronomer. Sky Guide is an augmented reality app that helps you see and understand what’s floating around in the universe, from any angle at any time.
Regardless of what direction you point your device, Sky Guide can show you stars and constellations and tell you what we know about them. In addition to the AR-enabled functions at the core of the app, Sky Guide plays relaxing atmospheric music in the background to give you an out-of-this-world experience.
Extras include space station trajectory tracking, an option to travel through time and see how objects in the universe have moved, news about the universe and much more that will turn you into an amateur astronomer in no time.
9. Tonic (free)
There are certain instruments people often resort to when they decide to take on the challenge of learning to play music–guitar, violin, drums. But, of course, the piano reigns as the most popular.
It’s easy to dabble with, but a struggle to master. Tonic is an augmented reality app that makes learning the piano a little easier.
The app’s AR technology lets you see over 130 piano chords with blue dots it places on your piano keys, with chords available in flat or sharp modes and three octaves to choose from.
Tonic’s chord dictionary lets you see the notation of the chords in its database and tells you their root notes. It works with 88, 76, 61, 49, and 25 key pianos, so regardless of what you’re using to learn this classical instrument, Tonic is the augmented reality app that can help you make sense of the ivory you’re trying to create beautiful sounds with.
10. Wayfair (free)
If you thought IKEA was all the rage, think again. Wayfair offers the world’s largest selection of home goods, offering over seven million products, and you get access to all of them through its shopping app.
Better yet, the app offers an augmented reality feature called 3D View in Room that allows you to see life-sized versions of products in any space. On top of that, you can arrange products in a virtual room with Room Planner, enabling you to design the ideal space in an app before making it a reality in your own home, office or other space.
Other benefits of the app include fast, mobile-optimized checkout; professional design inspirations with Shop the Look; and a way to save ideas with Idea Boards.
So if you’re looking to update a space, think twice before heading to a home-furnishing store–jump on Wayfair and start visualizing how your space would actually look with the furniture and decor you want in it with this AR app.
Are You Ready for AR?
For many, AR is a new concept they either haven’t taken the time to explore or haven’t considered particularly useful in their lives–aren’t normal iOS apps good enough?
But many augmented reality apps truly offer a new and useful experience that augments your day-to-day habits and rituals or provides a way to expand your curiosity and knowledge across a range of contexts. Start with these 10 augmented reality apps for iOS worth downloading and see where AR takes you.
Are there other augmented reality apps for iOS you think are worth downloading? Let us know on Twitter what they are and why you think they’re useful.
