Apple is really big into augmented reality and with iOS 12 it introduced a
new built-in app called measure that lets you measure physical objects in
augmented reality and we're going to try it out and see how accurate it is all
right when you first launch the measure app it's going to tell you to move
around your iPhone as it scans the environment it kind of makes an
augmented reality map and then you'll get finding your boys surface to measure
let's measure this table first you get a round dot in the middle put it on the
edge of the table and just right and get out press the little plus sign and in
the measure middle you'll get the measurement three feet two inches but it
is not lined up and that is easy to fix if you find the edges aren't lined up
you just grab them with your hand and drag it into place
that's better three feet one inch now we're going to see how accurate is that
break out the tape measure tape measure says 36 just so half an inch off that's
you shabby for augmented reality from your phone let's try this table over
here from this edge is for the reflection really messed that up I'm
gonna have to adjust that one yeah I am nowhere near the edge on that little
tweak we'll tweak on this side
five feet six inches oh that is way off hold on
I'm way out in space that's better four feet 11 inches five feet on the dot
so one inch off one edge all the way to the next it helps to have bright light
and cuts of contrast on the edges otherwise you're gonna find yourself
tweaking things a lot 9 feet 11 inches 10 feet on the dot so again one inch off
now the second thing the measure app can do and it's pretty slick is if it
discovers a rectangle in its view it will automatically highlight it you tap
it and it will give you the length and the width and the area in the center by
itself so over here we get the MacBook on the desk
now we know a MacBook this MacBook is 9 inches by 13 inches and it got the nine
inches right and says it's 12 and a half inches across and you can see the area
in the middle point seven eight square feet so it automatically does the math
for you you try it on a bigger object like this Big Mac box once you get the
highlight tap it 21 and a half inches by 27 inches 23 by 28 so an inch and an
inch and a half off on each not super accurate the final thing that your app
can do is act as a level if you hit the level button it measures whether or not
the phone itself is level it's not measuring objects in the real world
so you'd have to put it on an object to kind of get an idea of what is it level
or not and if you turn your phone this way you get like sort of a bubbles to
circles converge to see whether your phone is
flat so you can see whether the surfaces are flat so that's the measure app it
looks like it's plus or minus an inch which could be enough to let you know if
that chair you're thinking of buying will fit in that space that you want but
if it's close you should probably still break out the tape measure and
double-check