Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Early explorations with ARCore 1.0

Early explorations with ARCore 1


We recently launched ARCore 1.0 to give developers the ability to build powerful
augmented reality apps that make your phone’s camera smarter. 
It works on over 100 million Android devices, on more than a dozen different 
device models, so now more people can use AR to interact with the 
world in inspiring new ways.While it’s only been a few weeks since 
launch, developers are already publishing new ARCore experiences 
on Google Play, across gaming, shopping and home, and creativity.

Gaming

For gaming, AR weaves the action right into the world around you, making
the experience more immersive and unlocking a whole new way to play.
 Here are new titles built with ARCore:






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My Tamagotchi Forever
BANDAI NAMCO has released “My Tamagotchi Forever,” an experience 
in which players can raise Tamagotchi characters while building 
Tamatown, a virtual town you can play in the real world.





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Walking Dead Our World
Immerse yourself in the zombie apocalypse! Your mission, should you choose to accept
it, is to defend your surroundings by fighting zombies in real-world environments.
 Walking Dead Our World is a great example of how to use Google Maps 
API and ARCore together to build a location-based AR game. It’s currently in
pre-registration on Google Play, with a broader release planned soon.





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TendAR

Tender Claws created TendAR, a game that features Guppy, a virtual fish that responds tousers’ facial expressions and survives by “eating” other people’s
emotions. The game was created by combining AARCore with Google Cloud APIs, which providescomputer vision and object recognition.
You can read more about how they created the experience in this case study.
TendAR will be available to download starting in July 2018.

Shopping & Home

Augmented reality can bring anything into your space, which helps when you ’re trying
to understand the size and scale of things before you buy or ship them.
Here are a few experiences built by our retail partners to aid you in making smarter decisions:





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Pottery Barn 360 Room View
With Pottery Barn’s AR app, you can view furniture in your room to
see how it pairs with your  existing pieces, change the color and fabric
of furniture before deciding which looks best, and
can purchase what you’ve picked out directly from the app.





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eBayeBay is using AR to solve a specific challenge facing their community of
sellers: what size shipping containers needed to send that product? With the 
“Which Box” feature in eBay’s app, sellers can visualize shipping boxes to determine
which container size they need to send any product.
Sotheby’s Curate, Stream If you’re shopping for a new home or need
help to maintain yours, AR can also come in handy. With ARCore, Sotheby’s is
changing the way  people stage furniture in the real
estate world and the Stream app connects customers with professionals
 to solve household maintenance requests.

Creativity


Over the last few months, we’ve been tinkering with experiments that show how 
AR can be used as a new creative medium for self-expression. We’ve worked with creatorsacross different disciplines to explore what happens when AR is used by illustratorschoreographersanimators and more.
Now, we’re inviting more people to experiment with this
technology through an app that lets you make
simple drawings in AR, and then share your creation with a 
short video. The caveat: it’s “Just a Line.”





Make simple drawings in AR with Just a Line
We’re open sourcing the core code of the app so developers can use it as a
starting point for their own ARCore projects, and we’re excited to see what people create with Just a Line. Download it on Google Play.
Anyone with an ARCore-enabled phone can jump into most of these
experiences from the Play Store right now, and developers can
get started building their own apps today.

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