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Developers are ecstatic using ARKit for the following reasons:

• They no longer need to develop a specialty – Creating AR features in their apps is now made easy with the use of ARKit’s framework. They don’t even need to have prior experience working with augmented reality.
• ARKit can teach them the basics – Swift Playground is a challenge Apple has created using ARKit. The app can be downloaded from the App Store (available for iPad users) and allows developers to see how AR apps are created and used.
• They no longer need to struggle with QR Codes – In the past, in order to be able to scan QR codes, iOS users had to install a 3rd party app. With iOS 11, all QR codes are scanned automatically by the pre-installed camera app. If you want to link AR content to real-world surfaces and print materials, AR codes are extremely valuable.
• They can build apps with better understanding of motion – Visual Inertia Odometry (VIO) – technology that is used to track the real world around an iPhone or iPad – combines camera sensor data with the user’s CoreMotion data, which allows devices to better understand how an object is moving within a room, with no need to be extremely accurate to work or require any additional calibration. With ARKit, objects look more like they are being placed in real space rather than appear that you are just hovering over them.
• No need to worry about amount of perfect light – Before ARKit, developers had to figure out how to make sure the right amount of light was present in a scene. Now, the camera sensor does all the hard work. Based on the estimate of ARKit, virtual objects get the perfect amount of light. This allows them to create realistic AR content for users. Let us note that the better an AR algorithm performs the more room opens up for higher visual fidelity.
• They can create higher quality games – ARKit has joined hands with Scenekit (high-level 3D graphics framework) and 3rd party tools like one of the best game engines with AAA graphics, namely Unreal Engine. The result? Impressive levels of visual fidelity and detail.
• They can create detailed virtual content – ARKit runs on two of the most powerful processors known for their supreme performance – the Apple A10 and A9 processors. The high-performance hardware that gets a good grasp of the scene almost instantly enables developers to create extremely detailed virtual content.

The motion sensor, processors, and cameras that come with iOS devices are designed to access augmented reality solutions. With the ARKit being able to track the layout or orientation of different objects, using cameras to understand the lighting and geometry of scenes captured by a camera, developers have the extraordinary opportunity to place graphics that remain fixed on specific surfaces like ceilings, chairs, and tables, as the user moves the camera around, and create all sorts of new experiences.