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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past few years, Google has pushed a particular technology for implementing augmented reality in phones. Known first as Project Tango and now as Tango, Google's AR platform used to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part of a ARCore’s new Depth API in the works Part of a ARCore’s new Depth API in the works is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...