text: Google goes big on ARCore with a host of new augmented reality apps and games | Approid Technologies
  Approid Technologies March 21, 2018 February 3, 2021 No Comments on Google goes big on ARCore with a host of new augmented reality apps and games
  As a refresh, ARCore is the Google platform that lets developers create augmented reality experiences for Android phones. Using a phone's camera, the app tracks your position in real-time and places digitally rendered objects onto the real world, making for even more immersive experiences.
  Today's news comes a few weeks after Google launched the ARCore 1.0 SDK to developers, which simultaneously brought ARCore to over 100 million Android devices. With the SDK, developers can now publish AR-enabled apps to the Google Play Store.
  AR Emoji may be all the rage with the Galaxy S9, but what about virtual fish that eat people's emotions? Yeah, bet you hadn't thought of that.
  TendAR is a game that has a virtual fish named Guppy respond to your expressions and stay alive by 'eating' the emotions of other people. Google says the game taps the Google Cloud API for its computer vision and object recognition needs while also relying on ARCore. TendAR will be available in July.
  There's also a feature in the eBay app called 'Which Box' that lets users figure out which size box they'll need to ship a product. Not exactly fun, but certainly practical.
  Google is open-sourcing this simple concept's core code so developers can use the app as a base on which to build their own ARCore creations.
  AR may still be in the early stages in terms of developers and manufacturers figuring out the best uses for it, but Google's announcement ups the ante in a growing AR battle with rival Apple.
  Apple has its own ARKit platform for iPad and iPad, though we haven't gotten a big wave of ARKit apps and games to the same level as Google yet. iTunes does have a page that features 20 ARKit apps.
  We're likely to hear more about AR as it pertains to Android during the Google IO 2018 conference in May, while Apple has its own developer conference, WWDC 2018, taking place in early June. It's here we'll learn about iOS 12, which should have some new augmented reality features to talk about.