Last week, Google officially announced ARCore, its new
augmented reality platform for Android that would not require any special hardware to be installed in smartphones.
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new augmented reality platform, virtual reality development tools, the HomePod speaker, and improvements to iOS 11 on the iPad may not feel revolutionary or even particularly useful right now, but they are the building blocks for the technologies Apple is betting will power our future.
Google's recently announced ARCore, which is the successor to the tech giant's now basically defunct Project Tango, is in direct competition with Apple's
mobile augmented reality platform ARKit.
iOS 11 rolled out to all users on September 19th, introducing a number of features and changes, such as a redesigned Control Center,
augmented reality platform ARKit and upgraded Siri.
Google's
augmented reality platform now supports one of the most popular Android devices available: the Galaxy S9.Previously, ARCore was limited to Pixel devices, Nexus devices, and a few other Android handsets from the likes of Asus, Huawei, LG, Moto,... Read more
The tech giant announced it is working with Case Western researchers to put advanced quantum computing to use in creating higher quality imaging technology, as well as using the
Hololens augmented reality platform to present the images to doctors in 3D.
Apple began developing its
own augmented reality platform a couple of years ago and that ended up being ARKit, which now live natively inside devices running iOS 11.
Colum Elliott - Kelly from Blippar, the world's
leading augmented reality platform, presents «How augmented reality turns the physical page into a digital education portal»
Molly Flatt speaks to the c.e.o. of DEVAR, a
global augmented reality platform that allows publishers to enhance tradtional books with interactive AR content and integrated audio.
North Star is a
full augmented reality platform that allows us to chart and sail the waters of a new world, where the digital and physical substrates exist as a single fluid experience.
The company tells us that there is a plan to eventually bring the box preview feature to iOS, although that will clearly involve
changing augmented reality platforms (Apple's ARKit seems like the logical candidate).
«I used to think glasses were going to be the first
mainstream augmented reality platform, and that maybe 5 - 10 years from now we'd get the form factor that we all want,» Zuckerberg admits.
Later this summer, Verizon will be the first U.S. carrier to sell a Tango - enabled device, which also happens to be the second ever phone to support Google's
nascent augmented reality platform.
Samsung's latest high - end phablets also lack some other software support elements that they're expected to receive in the coming weeks, with ARCore compatibility being one of the most prominent omissions as Google's mobile
augmented reality platform still can't be installed on either device, at least not directly from the Play Store.
Last year saw the introductions of Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore
smartphone augmented reality platforms, the release of Windows 10 Mixed Reality headsets, the surprising unveiling of Lenovo's Mirage headset as part of their Star Wars Jedi Challenges collaboration with Disney, the announcement of a low - cost headset from Facebook - owned Oculus, and even the debut of Magic Leap's mixed reality headset.
While Cuseum works with museums across America, it's easy to see how other developers in Canada or the rest of the world could also
leverage augmented reality platforms like ARKit to do something similar with bringing back lost artwork.
It's been more than a year since Facebook's annual developer conference, when Zuckerberg said the company was poised for «act two,» a
new augmented reality platform to rival Snapchat, with help from Facebook's other properties, Instagram and WhatsApp.
While ARCore first launched with support only for the Pixel and the Samsung Galaxy S8 / S8 +, Google added more phones to the
mobile augmented reality platform's compatibility list last month.
Apple has already made a huge bet on augmented reality by developing ARKit, the tech giant's
own augmented reality platform that's natively part of iOS 11.
Based out of London, Jessica is the co-founder and CMO of Blippar,
the augmented reality platform that turns printed images into digital experiences.
• Virtualitics, a Pasadena, Calif. developer of big data visualization and analytics tools for virtual and
augmented reality platforms, raised $ 4.4 million in a Series A funding.
Apple introduced ARKit at WWDC earlier this year and it was one of the first indications that Cupertino would be putting a lot of time, money and resources into developing an «out of this world»
augmented reality platform.
The new Spurs home kit 11/12 has a new sponsor in the form of Aurasma, Autonomy Corp's new
augmented reality platform.
Google Tango, formerly known as Project Tango is
an Augmented Reality platform for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
Is that Google brought him into work on
their augmented reality platform ARCore.