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Learn ARCore - Fundamentals of Google ARCore
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Learn ARCore - Fundamentals of Google ARCore

by Micheal Lanham
March 2018
Beginner
274 pages
6h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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AR and ARCore

Augmented reality applications are unique in that they annotate or augment the reality of the user. This is typically done visually by having the AR app overlay a view of the real world with computer graphics. ARCore is designed primarily for providing this type of visual annotation for the user. An example of a demo ARCore application is shown here:

Google ARCore demo application; the dog is real

The screenshot is even more impressive when you realize that it was rendered real time on a mobile device. It isn't the result of painstaking hours of using Photoshop or other media effects libraries. What you see in that image is the ...

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