When Apple announced their ARKit platform in June, they immediately staked the claim to the largest augmented reality hardware platform, with millions of iPhones and iPads compatible with iOS 11 becoming AR devices this fall.
Not so fast, says Google. Today, Google revealed their own AR toolkit for developers, ARCore, with a preview software development kit now available. The platform preview runs today on Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S8 devices running Nougat and above.
Google is working with the likes of Samsung, Huawei, LG, ASUS, and others to expand support for the platform to additional… more
Source: Google’s ARCore Will Do for Android Hardware What Apple’s ARKit Has Done for iPhones
