Google just made it dead simple for ARKit devs to add a huge new featureIt's time for a unified AR experience, and this is a great first step.
Alongside the release of the next version of ARCore, Google competition to Apple's ARKit, something new for the iPhone was announced. The feature is called Cloud Anchors, and it's all about creating a way for iOS and Android to share Augmented Reality experiences without needing to do a ton of work.
Google's Cloud Anchor system makes it possible for an AR app to host a session for other AR users to join, only instead of joining through a local network or some shared server system, you use the physical world. The person who hosts the AR experience acts as a sort of beacon with the information collected about the environment on their phone. Things like location points and depth information for the space where you want the AR experience to live are made available to other app users anonymously. This way, when the second user takes their phone and locates the same physical space, the two users are now able to share ...
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Google just made it dead simple for ARKit devs to add a huge new feature
