Google introduces ARCore, Web augmented reality previews

I’m delighted that Google releasing a preview SDK of ARCore, bringing augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experimenting with it right now.

The team writes,

It works without any additional hardware, which means it can scale across the Android ecosystem. ARCore will run on millions of devices, starting today with the Pixel and Samsung’s S8, running 7.0 Nougat and above. We’re targeting 100 million devices at the end of the preview.

And:

We’re also working on Visual Positioning Service (VPS), a service which will enable world scale AR experiences well beyond a tabletop. And we think the Web will be a critical component of the future of AR, so we’re also releasing prototype browsers for web developers so they can start experimenting with AR, too. These custom browsers allow developers to create AR-enhanced websites and run them on both Android/ARCore and iOS/ARKit.

Super exciting times!

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