4 months
Google’s AR Solution ARCore is finally getting launched this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ARCore 1.0will allow developers to– in conjunction with Google lens — use phone cameras to build apps t...
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6 months
Back in 2014 Google launched Project Tango, a program which would see special depth-sensing sensors added to the back of phones and tablets to make them aware of their surroundings. The information could be used for navigation, ...
by Surur
8 months
In possibly the biggest win for ARKit so far, Amazon has added support for viewing items in their store in your home before you purchase them using the camera on your iPhone. The feature is part of the Amazon app, and AR View is a...
by Surur
8 months
Most people believe that Apple’S ARKit is only laying the ground for a real augmented reality headset solution in the near future, but speaking to The Independent Apple CEO Tim Cook made it clear they did not think the techn...
by Surur
8 months
We posted a few days ago that Microsoft was looking for developers to create a 3D scanning and augmented reality application for mobile devices. At the time it was not clear which platform this was for, though we assumed it was fo...
9 months
Microsoft is currently looking for a Principal SW Engineering Manager for its 3D scanning and augmented reality on mobile devices team, a Microsoft job listing reveals. First spotted by WalkingCat on Twitter, the job listing requi...
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9 months
Microsoft has shown off Minecraft on the HoloLens on a number of occasions, but very few of us have $3500 HoloLens headsets. South African startup Minecraft AR’s mission is to bring Minecraft in Augmented Reality to affordab...
by Surur
9 months
If you can’t be a leader at the very least you should be a fast follower. Microsoft has not proven itself adept at leading, and, after a false start, they tend to follow well after the market has already been settled. We saw...
by Surur
9 months
Microsoft’s HoloLens and Apple’s phone-based ARKit have different strengths and weaknesses, a situation which normally suggests you can get an even better result if you have the two technologies working together. Now ...
by Surur
10 months
While Microsoft’s HoloLens still offers the best augmented reality experience it is being rapidly overtaken by hardware-agnostic phone-based mixed reality like Snapchat and of course Apple’s ARKit. Up till now Google&#...
10 months
It’s that time of the year again: new iPhones are coming. Apple usually launches its new line of hardware in September of every year, and this time the company isn’t doing anything different. The company also has a lot...
