App developers can use augmented reality (AR) tech to help contextualize information by placing digital objects inside natural physical spaces. This technology uses spatial computing and overlaps ...

As its name suggests, ARCore is Android’s equivalent to Apple ARKit ... As Google describes it, ARCore has three basic components. The first is motion tracking, which estimates a phone ...

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 ...

Augmented Faces will work with front-facing Android cameras ... and new pre-built UI components called “ARCore Elements” to simplify the assembly of AR app interfaces. Most notably, the ...

That means Android users who ... 6 each ship with sufficient components, memory, and other requisites that they should easily be able to perform with the ARCore features. All three of the ...

Now that Android's ARCore platform is a practical reality, augmented reality apps are coming out of the woodwork.Google has announced that more than 60 ARCore-capable apps are launching on the ...

Related: Ten best augmented reality apps and AR apps for Android The Depth API is not dependent on special cameras and sensors, so it should work on pretty much any device that supports ARCore.

While there aren't many practical uses (yet) for Google's ARCore library, it's still an incredible technical achievement — especially considering most of the depth-sensing is done entirely with ...

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 ...