Imagine running alongside the cascading waterfalls and granite rocks of Yosemite Valley. Perhaps you want to visualize the route before you go, or relive it after the fact. A new augmented reality experience will recreate the route in a digital 3D map for you to explore.
Putting Apple’s new augmented reality developers kit, ARKit, to use, a new app called Fitness AR aims to visualize routes by building a digital terrain map that will appear in a person’s physical environment (think on the coffee table akin to the Cleveland Cavaliers’ holomaps experience of the Quicken Loans Arena renovations).