ARCore Insights

What is ARCore?

ARCore is Google's platform for building augmented reality experiences. It allows apps to understand the environment and integrate digital information with the real world using a mobile device's camera and sensors. ARCore is commonly used for creating AR games, shopping experiences, and productivity tools.

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What other technologies are related to ARCore?

ARCore Competitor Technologies

ARKit

ARKit is Apple's framework for building augmented reality experiences on iOS devices, directly competing with ARCore.

mentioned alongside ARCore in 35% (794) of relevant job posts

Vuforia

Vuforia is a software development kit (SDK) for creating Augmented Reality applications, and offers similar functionality to ARCore.

mentioned alongside ARCore in 45% (230) of relevant job posts

HoloLens

HoloLens is Microsoft's augmented reality headset and platform. While it has different form factor, the underlying technology competes with mobile AR solutions like ARCore.

mentioned alongside ARCore in 8% (65) of relevant job posts

ARCore Complementary Technologies

ARFoundation

ARFoundation is a Unity package that allows developers to build AR applications for both ARKit and ARCore from a single codebase, acting as an abstraction layer.

mentioned alongside ARCore in 57% (56) of relevant job posts

Unity3D

Unity is a popular game engine that is frequently used for building AR applications with ARCore.

mentioned alongside ARCore in 3% (120) of relevant job posts

Unity

Unity is a popular game engine that is frequently used for building AR applications with ARCore.

mentioned alongside ARCore in 1% (438) of relevant job posts