{"id":2139,"date":"2017-11-06T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:05:41","slug":"using-beacons-in-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-beacons-in-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Beacons in AR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/twocanoes.com\/ibeacons-and-arkit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interesting recent post at twocanoes<\/a> on how beacons can be used to detect which room a person is in, to then run the correct AR interaction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;While ARKit is aware of the geometry of the room the phone is in, it doesn\u2019t know what room it is in&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Beacons solve this problem. In fact, beacons are a useful addition to many apps. The more interesting usecases are often an ancillary use rather than the main use of an app or service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting recent post at twocanoes on how beacons can be used to detect which room a person is in, to then run the correct AR interaction: &#8220;While ARKit is aware of the geometry of the room the phone is in, it doesn\u2019t know what room it is in&#8221; Beacons solve this problem. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-beacons-in-ar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Beacons in AR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,27,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}