Arcore is a new technology launched during this day by the company Google for the Android operating system, being a copy of the "star" from iOS 11. More specifically, ARCore is a technology extremely similar to the ARKit announced by Apple for iOS 11, the basic idea also being centered around augmented reality, as is the case with Apple.
ARCore is basically a software that allows the implementation of augmented reality functions in Android applications, as will happen in iOS 11. Developers will be able to use ARCore and the cameras of Android phones and tablets to bring augmented reality into a very limited by users, specifically Google Pixel phones, Samsung Galaxy S8 and in the future others with Android 7.
ARCore – Google copied the star feature of iOS 11
ARCore will also offer the possibility of tracking the movements of people and objects through applications, but all based on a very limited number of compatible units. It was expected that ARCore would not be offered for a very large number of Android terminals from the very beginning, and this puts it at a great disadvantage in front of ARKit, which Apple offers to over 800 million compatible terminals.
ARCore comes at a time when the Apple company promotes augmented reality very intensively and announces many interesting news based on it. Those at Google couldn't let themselves down, so it will be interesting to see what Android application developers will be able to do with ARCore compared to what we've seen so far for Apple's ARKit.
"We've architected ARCore to be able to perceive a wide variety of sensors," Google AR/VR head Clay Bavor told TechCrunch. "We foresee, in the future, many more phones having depth-sensing capabilities and as those come into mainstream phones, that's great, ARCore will work seamlessly with those and benefit from the additional sensing capabilities."
