Google launches ARCore augmented reality SDK to battle Apple’s ARKit

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by Sindy Cator on August 30, 2017 at 6:14 am

Posted In: Around the Web, augmented reality, Google

Google has launched a preview of ARCore, a software development kit that brings augmented reality capabilities to Android mobile devices, including those without high-end hardware like depth sensing cameras. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Google already has an AR platform called Tango. But that earlier effort only works on a handful of powerful phones specially tricked out with the necessary sensors to allow you to place virtual 3D objects in a physical space and interact with them through your phone as if they were really there. With ARCore, Google is opening up augmented reality to many more users –…