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so we're here at WWDC checking out all the new updates that Apple just announced on stage for iOS and Mac OS now one of the big things that up it announced for iOS is called AR kit 2 now that's an updated framework of its augmented reality toolset for developers the basically lets developers make even more advanced augmented reality apps using the smart phones cameras and inch sensors now one of the new updates is coming with a ARCA 2 is called multiplayer AR games now essentially you make an app an AR kit app and you're allowed to bring everybody into one share of the world that means multiple people with multiple devices are all seeing the same thing that's fixed in space but it's made out of code and it doesn't really exist now one of the games that will develop just to show this off it's called Swift shot it's a multiplayer game a multiplier slingshot game and it supports up to four players at the same time now what we did was me and dieter we're on the same team we're facing two other attendees here at WWDC we each had an iPad pro in 9.7 inch iPad pro and we had a whole table full of obstacles that we had to knock down using a slingshot the goal of the game was to knock down your opponent's three flags and if your slingshot got knocked down you had to move to another one and use that one instead now for a game that I have never played before we were pretty good at it actually and we won both of our games back to back where's the what's up now that said it is still quite difficult you really have to move around you have to get angles you have to basically get lower higher you have to really use the physical space to take advantage of the full breadth of the augmented reality features now we saw something similar at Google i/o where Google introduced cross-platform augmented reality multiplayer games but on iOS and especially with a Ark it's sophistication you can expect to see a little bit more polished experiences and swift shot was definitely one of those now it's just the first of what could be many many many multiplayer a are apps that developers I can make for the iOS platform we won't see any of those unfortunately until September when iOS 12 launches a Orca 2.0 is part of that new iOS update and it's not coming to the public until presumably the new iPhones in September come out that said developers are gonna be able to get their hands on this stuff we're very soon I'm gonna be able to start building experiences that work in beta starting basically this week so the WWDC keynote is wrapped and now we're on the hunt for more cool things to get on video you want to read all the Apple news and everything in announced period WDC check out the verge calm sea