ARCore now supports shared experiences and walls

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As expected, Google had a thing or two to share about its VR and AR endeavors, mostly the latter. And, as expected, it's not exactly much. Make no mistake, though, the updates Google has announced for its ARCore augmented reality platform for Android are not just much-needed ones, they are also long overdue. Now AR app developers will be able … Continue reading
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ARCore v1.4 adds support for 10 more devices, gets several improvements

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...We published a teardown of ARCore v1.4 a few days ago in which we discovered a few new supported devices, but there wasn't a full list and we didn't know what else the update broguht. But now, Google's page of supported ARCore devices has been updated, and the Play Store listing has been updated with a changelog.Here's the list of newly-supported devices:Huawei Honor 10Huawei Nova 3Huawei Nova 3iMoto X4Moto Z3Nokia 8Samsung Galaxy A6 (2018)Vivo NEX AVivo NEX SXiaomi Mi 8 SE Our list actually had most of these devices save for the Moto Z3 (which was just announced today) and two Huawei devices. Our list also had some unannounced devices, like the Pixel 3 and 3 XL, Xperia XZ3, and Nokia "Phoenix."And here's the changelog:WHAT'S NEWSupport for passthrough camera auto focus.Improved plane detection speed.Additional image resolutions supported for computer vision. Passthrough camera autofocus basically allows your camera to focus on an object that it anti…
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Google wants to teach you how to develop your own ARCore apps

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AR is still a budding technology, but it has the prospects to become ubiquitous in the future. Both Google and Apple offer a for-the-masses AR platform for their respective ecosystems, in the form of ARKit and ARCore, which can be implemented by developers to create all kinds of interesting experiences. But getting into augmented reality is not an easy thing for people without any programming experience, and Google wants to change this.
In a bid to help foster a new generation of AR creators, Google has collaborated with Coursera to release a free introductory ...
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Update Notes for the Google app, Google Pay, Google Fit, ARCore, and Lens (August 25, 2018)

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Every week, I examine somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred app updates while looking for changes. The most interesting things turn into APK Teardowns or Download posts. Many of the remaining updates are unremarkable, amounting to a few bug fixes, routine updates to libraries, or even just pixel-level adjustments to layouts and images. However, there are usually a few updates that land somewhere in between. I don't want to spam readers with dozens of short posts, but I hate to ignore things that people might want to know about, so I'm going to wrap up the leftovers for a little weekend reading and call it Update Notes.Special thanks to נתנאל מ for the great hero image on this post!Google app v8.18 betaAs is becoming tradition, an update to the Google app began rolling to the beta channel just in time for it to play with users over the weekend. As updates go, this one may be the least eventful I've seen in many months, thus the demotion to a spot in Update Notes rather…
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What you missed this week at CordCutters.com

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Amazon might not have invented over-the-air TV, but it's about to make it even bigger.The new Amazon Fire TV Recast is going to be a big deal for cord-cutters. Actually, that whole over-the-air antenna space is a big deal for cord-cutters, and has been for a long time.But it also plays a crucial role going forward. One of the biggest questions we get regards local channels. (And for a lot of folks, especially this time of year, college football.) While streaming services are getting better about carrying local channels, the simple fact is that you get more locally available channels with a decent over-the-air antenna. And once you've gotten past the initial hardware expenditure — you get get an indoor antenna for as little as $20, and a decent outdoor antenna for maybe twice that — the content is free.Consider: I can get my local ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates on a streaming service. But I can get something like 30 locally available channels with an antenna. Do I watch them …
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