Dev Report: Tango Is Dead, ARCore Preview 2 Is Here with No Change to the Device List

In a highly exciting but ultimately disappointing turn of events, Google released the ARCore Preview 2 today. While the new preview does bring with it new versions of the application programming interface (API) for the C language, pause and resume functionality, as well as increased accuracy, one thing it seems to be missing is a bigger compatibility list. ARCore is an API built off of the augmented reality experiments that Google started back in 2014 with Project Tango — AR based on a special sensor to be put into smartphones. Tango, unfortunately, was only used in a few Android devices and... more



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