Google subsidiary Owlchemy Labs has cooked up an experimental ARCore mobile app that enables smartphone users to follow along with their VR friends as they play games in a head-mounted display.
Called Mobile Spectator, the app uses ARCore to track the smartphone’s position in physical space.
After connecting to the same Wi-Fi network as the PC running the VR headset and synchronizing the positions of the smartphone and VR headset, a camera representing the app is placed in the VR scene. The PC renders and encodes the viewpoint of the camera and sends it to the smartphone app, where it is… more
