ARCore is Google’s platform for mobile augmented reality which does not require specialized hardware. As of December, it’s available on 250 million devices and powers features like Playmoji on the ...

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Before ARCore, Google’s augmented reality efforts were based around Project Tango and devices that required specialized cameras and sensors. That platform had ...

In a couple of weeks, Apple will release ARKit with iOS 11 and, overnight, hundreds of millions of Apple devices will become augmented reality-capable machines, giving developers a sort of new mobile ...

The latest version of ARCore, Google’s augmented reality developer platform for Android phones, now includes a depth API. The API was released as a preview back in December, but now it’s live for ...

After playing around in the experimental phase, Google is bringing its ARCore augmented reality platform to its 1.0 release with availability on over 100 million Android devices. If you have a new ...

Google is bringing high-quality augmented reality to Android — and not just to one phone, or even a few, but eventually to every device running 7.0 Nougat or higher. It’s all happening through a new ...

Google has updated the ARCore platform for augmented reality that is offered on both Android and iOS devices. The new ARCore Depth API allows any phone to create a depth map using just a single RGB ...

The other new ARCore apps are less exclusive — Google says they’ll work on “most” Android devices running 7.0 Nougat or newer. A new League of Legends app lets spectators watch matches unfold in their ...

Google has taken the wraps off its answer to Apple’s ARKit–a new augmented reality development platform called “ARCore.” In a blog post, the company said it’s releasing a “preview” software ...

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One of Apple’s more notable announcements during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year was ARKit, which allows augmented reality apps to not only run on iOS devices, but also do so ...