Gordon Gottsegen is a tech writer who has experience working at publications like Wired. He loves testing out new gadgets and complaining about them. He is the ghost of all failed Kickstarters. This ...

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. It was announced in 2017, with Google later deprecating Tango for the current solution that does not require specialized sensors, cameras, or ...

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 ...

It was initially reported that the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus would support ARCore back in February. However, the devices did not support the tech out-of-the-box and it is only now, two months after the ...

Why it matters: Google's ARCore SDK intended for augmented and virtual reality applications is about to see a major expansion. In partnership with Xiaomi, Google is bringing its latest software to ...

Google LLC has released a new application programming interface for Android that will enable developers to create more realistic-looking and functional augmented reality applications. The ARCore Depth ...

Google’s ARCore is now compatible with Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus flagships some six weeks after the augmented reality platform first debuted on smartphones from the South Korean original ...

Google is ramping up its efforts to return to China. Earlier this year, the search giant detailed plans to bring its ARCore technology — which enables augmented reality and virtual reality — to phones ...

What just happened? Back in December, Google announced that Project Tango would soon be shuttered. Its initiative to bring augmented reality to mobile devices was being replaced by ARCore, which doesn ...

No audio available for this content. Bird uses the ARCore Geospatial API to enable a scooter parking app. (Image: Bird) Google has launched the ARCore Geospatial API in ARCore software development ...

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