Google's ARcore - Early Experiments, This And That

 Another Step towards Budget Hololens

 

Ah, what a day. Google released ARCore , it's latest AR SDK which, unlike Tango, can achieve great results without dedicated depth cameras.

 Is this a response to Apple's  ARKit ? I don't care, because this will make a difference in it's own way. The introduction video of ARCore is showing good lighting utilization in simulations as well as neat physics for 3D objects. Developers going crazy already with SDK. Here's what  most of the news are not showing.

And the good news is this Google will launch this on Samsung S8 devices too along with Pixel Phones. And planned to release support on other companies later.

Draw and Dance

By Anna Fusté & Judith Amores




This is pretty simple yet convincingly amazing work these girls did.
You can create the Subject and make it your personal entertainer. They used Unity, ARCore, Vuforia and API.AI to build this. The work they did with API.AI for voice commands is impressive.

Flight Paths

A visualization of flight data that floats around you.
By William Lindmeier

AR Wormhole

Lets you create wormholes and portals !
By Jonas Jongejan, Torin Blankensmith & Anthony Tripaldi

Built with Unity and an ORAH live 360 camera.

 Well Many more , but I really like this one

Glass Sculptor

Create a glass sculpture that floats around you.
By Active Theory

 

All the images in this are taken from https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ar , and videos linked are from the developers' respective Youtube channels.

 Bonus:  This is a total hololens thing if you recall the early demos of it. 

 

You can start developing using their SDK and sample projects in here : https://developers.google.com/ar/