Google also released their own “Just A Line” creative AR illustration app.
Last month, Google launched ARCore 1.0, making AR development faster and easier for even more mobile devices. At the time, we got a preview of a handful of apps that developers were already building with Google’s augmented reality platform, including apps from Porsche, Sotheby’s, and even a Ghostbusters experience that has you firing a particle beam to vacuum up Slimer.
Now Google is sharing even more apps that developers have been creating. Announced at GDC, Google highlighted just a few of the 60+ apps from early partners that are going live on Google Play soon.
While all early explorations across gaming, shopping, and creativity, these highlighted apps should have a few of you excited to download and really show the potential of what’s possible in the future from AR.
Here are a some of the first AR games built with ARCore released at GDC:
My Tamagotchi Forever
Seizing on our nostalgia for all things 90s, Tamagotchi is back! The original digital pet for many of us old enough to remember, Bandai Namco is throwing out that tiny plastic egg for an ARCore app. The AR-enabled game will have you raising Tamagotchi characters while building and populating Tamatown; a virtual town you can also play with in the real world.
TendAR
Walking Dead Our World
Pottery Barn 360° Room View
eBay
Just A Line
Probably my favorite app out of the bunch, Google is inviting all of us to experiment in AR with a new creativity app. The app lets you make simple drawings in AR, then share your creation with a short video. The caveat: it’s “Just a Line.”
Who knew that just making simple drawings in AR could be so beautiful and fun. Google is also open-sourcing the core code of the app so developers can easily use it as a starting point for their own ARCore projects.
Google worked with artist Shantell Martin to see what she’d make with the app—it’s worth a watch.
Just a Line works on any phone that supports ARCore, and to try it, you can download it here.
Have you come across any other ARCore apps we should be highlighting? Let us know.
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