ARCore is built upon Google Tango – the first consumer hardware platform for mobile Augmented Reality. It uses computer vision to enable mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to detect their position relative to the world around them without using GPS or other external signals.
Google Augmented Reality Technology Case Study
Google ARCore launched in September 2017 to deliver Augmented Reality at Android scale, targeting 100 million devices. The Signal Garden team has led development for Google Tango and now ARCore.
Atom Visualizer, developed by Signal Garden in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the University of New Mexico, is the world’s first ARCore app published on the Play Store. Atom Visualizer is also the #1 downloaded app made exclusively for ARCore.
Outlets including Engadget and PocketNow have named Signal Garden’s Signal Mapper utility the best commercial app for Tango, and Johnny Lee (Google, Tango Project Lead & Engineering Director) featured the app presenting Tango during the Google I/O 2017 AR & VR Keynote.
Our Augmented Reality Journey With Google
University of Copenhagen / Centre for Interaction Research and Communication Design Case Study
The SensoryFusion application allows users to navigate around obstacles in an unmapped environment by providing spatial awareness through the use of passive auditory feedback.
Real-time three-dimensional mapping and spatial awareness is accomplished via a combination of software techniques and technologies leveraging the device’s onboard sensors. The application produces geometry for an augmented reality environment that directly matches the real world environment. Spatial auditory feedback is then generated for the user based on detected geometry.
The application uses real-time augmented reality (AR) technologies and advanced signal and data processing pipelines to map out and understand the physical shape of the environment around a user. Manipulation of the audio properties also used.
The Sensory Fusion is designed to run on the Lenovo Phab2Pro. This device was chosen because it is a low-power, commercially available, off-the-shelf smartphone that is AR capable and is equipped with a Google Tango-enabled sensor package (accelerometers, gyrometer, cameras, etc.), which includes a time of flight depth sensor, was at the time the the most powerful mobile phone based sensor package. Other compatible devices have become available since, making this technology very accessible as blind people can easily buy it and use it as part of their everyday lives.
