The augmented reality of Google to improve a lot: already detected depth

There are many big companies who are betting very heavily on the augmented reality and virtual. Apple, Facebook or Google are some of the largest.

A few months ago Google announced that it was going to put in the hands of the developers a new API that would allow the use of the augmented reality on the Android mobile, AR Runs so much more advanced, to be able to capture the depth of the scenes we recorded.

Now the company has confirmed that this API is already public, and even some applications, such as Snapchat, have built into their latest versions.

Great efficiency, without special hardware

One of the keys to this technology is that Google has managed to run it on mobile phones which do not have some special features. Thanks to its algorithms can create a depth map, similar to that used in the portrait mode of the Pixel, which is what will allow virtual elements to interact with the environment.

These novelties are already available to developers in ARCore 1.18, both for Android as well as for projects that use Unity.

To implement it in their applications, developers can use virtual elements into their programs that will be integrated with the environment in which we recorded.

In addition, the new API will make use of the sensors of the ToF of some mobile phones to improve the quality and accuracy of the apps. This is not to say that those sensors are mandated to use AR Core, but yes that will be an element of support.

Let us remember that while not all mobile phones on the market are compatible with AR Core, are increasingly the models that are, including some of brands like OPPO and realme who have recently arrived in Spain.

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