Announcing New Pro Course: Face Tracking with RealityKit!

Leverage RealityKit and Reality Composer to build engaging AR experiences focused on tracking facial movement and expressions! [Face Tracking with RealityKit] Announcing new Pro Course: Face Tracking with RealityKit Admit it — you've created at least one Memeoji in your likeness, haven't you? We don't blame you — face tracking filters are everywhere you go today. And when a social or photo app doesn't have some type of face tracking feature, it feels so...2012. Ew. Learn how to create your own face-tracking feature in our new [Face Tracking with RealityKit course!]( Keep reading to hear more about it from course instructor Catie Catterwaul: Why should I take your Face Tracking with RealityKit course? [Catie Catterwaul] "If you've ever wondered how those animated Memoji and Animoji work in Messages, or just want to get your feet wet building an experience in augmented reality, this course is for you!" What surprised you about RealityKit when making the course? "I was surprised by how quick and painless it could be to track changes in specific aspects of a facial expression. It is wild how much information RealityKit can get from that front-facing, true depth camera on your iPhone! It can take a 3D mesh of a generic human face, map it onto your face, and create blend shape data from your expressions in real time. And it does all of that without you having to apply those tracking dots to your face like you may have seen for movie or game motion capture. In my course, I use that blend shape data to drive the animation of objects in augmented reality." Can you please share a cool RealityKit tip with us? "In addition to tracking changes to the shape of your face, RealityKit can also give you real-time information about the transform of each eye, and figure out the point in AR space those eyes are focused on. You can get all of that information from a face anchor's lookAtPoint, leftEyeTransform, and rightEyeTransform properties. That means you can point or place any AR objects in your scene at that same location. In my course, I used this to add a fake, third eye to my own forehead that is always looking at the same point as my real eyes. But, you could potentially use that same data to detect which part of their screen a user is looking at, or if they're looking at their device at all." Is there anything else we should know about your Face Tracking with RealityKit course? "If you've never worked in a 3D environment before, Apple has a neat 3D scene visualization tool called Reality Composer that I think you'll like. If you ever tried out SceneKit and felt a bit overwhelmed, Reality Composer is a much more streamlined experience. It's integrated into Xcode, but there is also a version that will run right on iOS. It even includes a small library of 3D objects for you to try out. That means you can build a scene with free 3D models directly in ARSpace with just your iPhone." [Face Tracking with RealityKit]( Hey — the new Ultimate Subscription gets you access to both videos and books, all in the same subscription. Interested? [Click here to learn more ➜]( [Catie Catterwaul's Face Tracking with RealityKit course is available for Pro subscribers now!]( — Ray [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [raywenderlich.com]( To make sure you keep getting these emails, please add [ray@raywenderlich.com](mailto:ray@raywenderlich.com?__s=cvrcwzw8swfpbwthb5zf) to your address book or whitelist us. Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](. Our postal address: 1882 Hawksbill Rd, McGaheysville, VA 22840 [View as a Web Page](