Project Tango launched in 2014 as an ambitious research project to give smartphones advanced vision capabilities. Tango relies on mobile devices having a set of specialised custom hardware, including ...

For the past few years, Google has pushed a particular technology for implementing augmented reality in phones. Known first as Project Tango and now as Tango, Google's AR platform used to have ...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a huge buzzword, and a topic that’s really captured the imagination of mobile app developers. In AR applications, a live view of the physical, real world environment is ...

Google is continuing to improve its augmented reality platform, ARCore, and has released an update for Android and iOS that adds facial augmentation and improves the existing Cloud Anchors that ...

Ever since Google launched ARCore last year, an augmented reality software kit for developers, the company has been hard at work tweaking the technology to convince users that the augmented objects ...

ARCore is Google’s platform for mobile augmented reality which does not require specialized hardware. As of December, it’s available on 250 million devices and powers features like Playmoji on the ...

It's time to get close and personal with your pocket monsters. Previously, Pokemon weren't fixed to your environment in Pokemon GO and had no awareness of your existence outside of you hitting them ...

While Google’s 2018 improvements to the augmented reality framework ARCore were rarely eye-catching, the company is kicking off 2019 with features Android users will appreciate: ARCore 1.7 is adding ...

This month the new update has been rolled out to the AR Core rich and support for its first Chromebook Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, and many more. The ARCore v1.4 update has now added support for ...

Part of a ARCore’s new Depth API in the works Part of a ARCore’s new Depth API in the works is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...

Google’s already very impressive ARCore is about to get even more impressive. At Google I/O 2019, the company announced a series of changes to ARCore that should make it a little more stable and ...