It’s clear how active the colossus of Mountain View is regarding investments in Augmented Reality, and how much it relies on this new technology.
Recently Google has started a test phase for a version of Google Maps implemented with Augmented Reality, offering the possibility to experience this engaging option only to the owners of a Google Pixel smartphone and to level 5+ Local Guides. While, at the beginning, this platform’s features were accessible only by Google Pixels’ owners, today exists a long list of compatible devices such as Samsung, Iphone, Huawei and all the major producers in the mobile phones sector.
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the possibility of being used on various Android versions. it doesn’t use special proximity sensors but it uses only the smartphone’s camera and accelerometer. The company didn’t give up and in March 2018 started a platform called ARCore, similar to Apple’s ARkit.ĪRCore has way lower restrictions than Project Tango: Because of many limitations, including the need to use smartphones with special sensors, though, the project was closed in 2018. In 2014 Google launched Project Tango, a project entirely dedicated to Augmented Reality, becoming a true innovator within the sector. Google was surely one of the first giants to adopt AR within its business. It seems that this hi-tech glasses will be totally dependent on Iphones, becoming a true wireless accessory. According to a report by analyst Ming Chi Kuo, also, in the last quarter of 2019 Apple will begin the production of its first AR goggles, that should be available on the market by 2020. In 2017, with the iOS 11 update, Apple launched an Augmented Reality platform called ARkit, enabling developers to create engaging apps using this technology. In the last few years Apple has hired three among the greatest AR experts in the world: Yuri Petrov of Oculus VR, Zeyu Li of Magic Leap and Doug Bowman, director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. In 2015 Apple has taken over Metaio and Faceshift, both companies that work in the AR sector, the first is german and the second is american. in 2013 Apple has acquired Prime Sense, the company that gave Microsoft the technology for Xbox Kinect’s motion sensors. Recently Apple is using many resources to finance their investements in Augmented Reality: 
Not only because it operates in the hi-tech market, but also because, from 1984 (release date of the first Macintosh), Apple has begun to set the bar higher and higher – regarding electronic products’ standard – influencing the whole global market. We all know how much innovation is important for the american colossus.
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