San Francisco, Google will close its ambitious augmented reality (AR) platform "Tango" built specifically for smartphones starting March 1, 2018, the company announced Saturday.
The announcement is seen as an attempt to focus on a new software development kit (SDK) called "ARCore" that brings the AR experience closer to Android users.
"We reject Tango's support on March 1, 2018. Thank you to our incredible community of developers who have made such progress with Tango over the past three years." We look forward to continuing the journey with you on ARCore, "The Tango team tweeted.
"Google is pursuing AR development with ARCore, a new platform designed for creating augmented reality applications for a wide range of devices without the need for specialized hardware," the company said.
It uses computer vision to allow mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to sense their position relative to the world around them without using GPS or other external signals.
This allows developers to create user experiences that include inland navigation, 3D mapping, physical space measurement, environmental recognition, RA, and windows in a virtual world.
Google "ARCore" is now available for developers to experiment. "ARCore" is scalable on the Android ecosystem because it does not require any additional hardware.
The new AR platform has been deployed on Google Pixel and Samsung S8 running on Android 7.0 Nougat and above.
Google works with manufacturers like Samsung, Huawei, LG, ASUS and other major smartphone manufacturers for quality and performance controls.
"ARCore", which works with "Java / OpenGL", "Unity" and "Unreal" technologies, focuses on three functions: motion tracking, environmental understanding and light estimation.
Apple recently unveiled its "ARKit" AR-based platform to allow developers to build applications that could place virtual content on real-world scenes.
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