Christmas has arrived early for ARCore app developers, as Google just unwrapped a few iterative improvements to the augmented reality toolkit in version 1.6.
The first improvement comes in the form of improved lighting in Sceneform, Google’s 3D rendering library for Javascript. Now, lighting defaults to ambient light to neutral or white shades, instead of yellow in previous versions. The result is more natural looking 3D content. Objects will also appear more realistic based on environmental lighting, such as reflecting red and orange hues at sunset.
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Source: ARCore 1.6 Gifts Developers with Improved Lighting & Support for Screen Capturing
