![]() ![]() With it, users will be able to express yourself with playful emojis and set the scene for your very own stories. To start, Google has put AR objects and characters at fingertips in a new experience called AR Stickers. That means you’ll be able to have really engaging AR experiences. It enables robust tracking, even in low-light conditions, and 60 frames per second rendering of AR objects. Daydream now has more than 250 titles, so you’ll never run out of things to do.Īside from taking great photos and videos, the Pixel 2 camera is factory calibrated and optimised for AR. Last year, Google launched with 25 apps and games. It sports a premium two-tone fabric that makes the headset soft and light, and it comes in three new colours: Fog, Charcoal and Coral. The new Daydream View has high-performance lenses, which result in better image clarity and a wider field of view. The company also announced a new Google Daydream View headset, which you can pair with Pixel 2 or another Daydream-ready phone for great VR. Stepping on the same path, Google has launched a new Pixel smartphones which gives you access to amazing smartphone AR and high-quality mobile VR in the same device. In fact, live audible foreign-language translation is a great example of what we call “AR audio.Virtual and augmented reality have already been said to revolutionise the way we will interact with digital objects that are integrated seamlessly in the real world around you. Think of it like the ear-whisper translation system used by UN delegates, but for the rest of us. ![]() Ambient audio information about one’s surroundings could be a prominent type of AR “overlay.”įor example, using Google Assitant, Pixel Buds can perform real-time language translation. Like Apple’s Airpods, they represent an unsung AR modality: sound. What’s the AR angle? Though they aren’t explicitly for AR, Pixel Buds align with our predictions for AR’s trajectory. Like Airpods, Pixel Buds create another user touch point to serve information - in this case, audio from Google Assistant and other channels. In our recent report about ARCore and ARkit, we predicted Google would launch an AirPods competitor. Compared to Apple’s App-heavy approach, ARCore assets will be atomized and available in several ways such as the mobile web and (in this case) the camera. These stickers are also a subtle reflection of Google’s AR strategy: to reduce friction for AR experiences. We’ll see more utilitarian or practical AR graphics evolve as developers get their hands on ARCore. Though stickers are a bit trite, Google is smart in following the market validation - set through Snapchat and others - for socially-shared and cartoon-like AR objects. They’ll include movie and TV tie-ins - such as Stranger Things characters - that have animation and dimensional interactivity with the real-world spaces they inhabit. Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: CNET's live coverage of Google's Pixel 2 event ()Īs the first deployment of ARCore, AR stickers will be available on Pixel phones and initially in the camera app. (click embedded video, coded to start at the right point) Its availability will be signified by the lens logo, first seen in the camera app - a fitting context to scan an environment when one’s phone is already held up. Lens will be accessible in various apps, first on Pixel phones but rolling out eventually to the broader Android universe. Tapping into Google’s AI engine (the same thing that powers Google Assistant), it showed ways that Lens will identify things like dog breeds, architecture and wall art. But this week we got a more in-depth look. The Lens demo at Google I/O spotlighted the ability to identify local storefronts. It will be a key component of Google’s mobile AR strategy. ![]() But instead of interactive graphics, it overlays search-like information on targeted objects, such as purchase info. Google Lens falls into the category of “ visual search.” A close cousin of AR, it identifies objects in the real world. We’ve also provided color commentary on what it means for AR & VR… ahem, immersive computing. You can see those videos embedded below, coded to start at the right points. But it doesn’t like those terms, instead preferring “immersive computing.” This week at its Pixel 2 event, Google unveiled several products along that immersive computing spectrum.įor this week’s featured video, we’ve clipped the relevant parts where these products were demo’d. Google is blitzing AR & VR, along with other tech giants. ![]()
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