A developer has previewed a pair of potential applications built on ARKit that can be triggered by Alexa, the resident voice assistant of the Amazon Echo.
The demos come courtesy Scott Finkelstein, manager of web technologies at Adelphi University. In the first video, Finkelstein asks Alexa to launch “augmented weather systems,” and then asks her to “make it rain.” Alexa complies, resulting in a rain animation on the iPhone’s camera view.
Alexa, control the weather.
Alexa, make that varmint dance.
In the second video, Alexa plays “Misirlou” by Dick Dale and His Del-Tones, the de facto theme… more
