Have you ever seen a chair float across the living room? Placed an imaginary carpet on your floor? Seen your entire dream room through the screen of a tablet or phone?Now through the new and innovative AR technology, a whole room can be imagined into existence without moving a single piece of furniture. Through AR, an object can be projected onto screen via a camera or video, giving a live demonstration of what the furniture looks like and how it fits in a room.
The explosive growth of mobile AR is completely attributable to smartphones and tablets. Mobile AR has contributed enormously to the way we can now experience games, art and entertainment which can be accessed from remote places to urban landscapes.
A new AR app, Hipster Bait, plans to recreate the classic era of discovering music and exposing the user to new rock n’ roll artists and bands through a location based AR experience, similar to Pokémon GO.
Google Creative Lab’s ARCore’s Depth API, which the company had previewed in Dec. 2019, is now available to the public, allowing developers to build smart pathing, occlusion, collision, and more into their AR apps. Lines of Play from Google Creative Lab is pushing their developers creativity and putting their capabilities to the test.
Kia has announced that they are launching an AR owner's manual dubbed the 'Kia Owner's Manual App' developed in partnership with Google Cloud and Megazone. So the next time you buy a new Kia, it might not have a traditional printed owner's manual.
TeamViewer’s enterprise-grade Augmented Reality app boasts new ARCore Depth API integration, in what looks like an impressive upgrade to TeamViewer Pilot. The integration will enable more accurate placements of AR annotations, drastically improving user-experience.