Google has experimented with augmented reality via its Tango platform, but that requires specific hardware, like the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, to work. Now, as Apple prepares to unleash AR capabilities ...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a huge buzzword, and a topic that’s really captured the imagination of mobile app developers. In AR applications, a live view of the physical, real world environment is ...

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 ...

Project Tango launched in 2014 as an ambitious research project to give smartphones advanced vision capabilities. Tango relies on mobile devices having a set of specialised custom hardware, including ...

Google’s already very impressive ARCore is about to get even more impressive. At Google I/O 2019, the company announced a series of changes to ARCore that should make it a little more stable and ...

Google is continuing to improve its augmented reality platform, ARCore, and has released an update for Android and iOS that adds facial augmentation and improves the existing Cloud Anchors that ...

Ever since Google launched ARCore last year, an augmented reality software kit for developers, the company has been hard at work tweaking the technology to convince users that the augmented objects ...

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While Google’s 2018 improvements to the augmented reality framework ARCore were rarely eye-catching, the company is kicking off 2019 with features Android users will appreciate: ARCore 1.7 is adding ...

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Augmented reality, commonly identified as one of the major trends in mobile app development for 2019, gets a boost in the Android camp with an update of Google ARCore SDK that features new UI tools ...