ARCore is a new set of API’s, Frameworks and tools to allow real-time Augmented Reality(AR) apps to work on a standard Android device. What is AR as opposed to Virtual Reality (VR)? Great question! It’s a program that will put digital objects and visuals in your view of the actual world through your VR Headset or, in this case, your phone screen. Based on the work they’ve done with Project Tango, ARCore removes the need for specialized hardware making room scale VR in reach of the common Cell Phone.
How do You Install The ARCore App?
Before you had to jump through way too many hoops just to get ARCore working on your phone. Now that ARCore version 1.0 has been released, getting it onto your phone is that much easier and you can download it right from the Google Play Store! Now, remember, ARCore is just an app you download that will allow the other supporting ARCore apps to work. So when you click on the app and it opens like a library, don’t be discouraged. To use the full benefit of this app, check out the list of other apps below.
After you download other apps that use ARCore you just launch those apps from your phone!
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What Apps are Available?
While there used to be only a precious few ARCore apps, the list has expanded and will only continue to do so! If ARCore is already installed on your device, check out these games and apps to see what you can do! If not, continue to learn how to get ARCore on your phone!
All of the ARCore apps currently on the PlayStore are free, so I’ve made this even easier by putting them in general sections!
Games
Space
Stickers
AR Friends
Shopping/Planning
Experience
Edcating
Measuring
Misc
Games
99 Snowballs for ARCore
AR Invasion – Augmented Reality ARcore Alien Game
Stack Tower AR
Agelore’s Fantasy FPS – AR
Paint AR
Star Wars™: Jedi Challenges
Capsule Commander AR
AR Beer Pong
Stack it AR
Froggie Jump
Gun Camera 3D Simulator
AR BounceBall
Doll House Decoration
Model Makeup Salon
AR Remote Car
AR Defence
AR Sea Wars
Mazelith
Geekplay™ AR Gun
Flat Pack
AR Switch
Super AR
The Chintz Bar
Arcraft – AR Sandbox
Candy AR
AR Drone Commander Lite
AERO One
AR Soccer Strike
Geekplay
The Condor
Skyview
FINNEGANS TV TakeoverAKEOVER
Ardemo
Space
If there’s one thing that’s wildly popular in ARCore, is people making apps about viewing space. Any of these apps will plug our solar system right into your living room to have an up close and personal experience with!
Solar System ARCore
ARCore Solar System
Solar System AR
Giant Moon AR
Solar System AR
Stickers
AR Stickers are fun for the whole family. Take the sticker options from your selected app, plug them into your reality to come up with some super cool videos and images!
AR Stickers
AR Stickers Blocks
AR Stickers Winter Sports
Car AR Stickers
Snow and Winter AR Stickers
Qlone – 3D Scanning & AR Solution
AR Friends
These apps here will show you all of the little friends you can plug into your world, much like an AR Sticker, and interact with!
Gnome Cam
AR Horse
Santa Anywhere
BodyguARd
ARCore Floating Pumpkins Demo
AR Girl
Bydo’s return: A halloween augmented reality game
ARCore – Tiger
Realworld-AR
GARnie
Assemblr
Sketchfab
Holo
AR Mole
Shopping/Planning
Want to know what that couch you’re interested in buying will look like in the corner of your room before you buy it? These apps are here to help you figure that out! Big names like Amazon have already made their shopping apps AR compatible!
Amazon
Houzz Interior Design Ideas
Alice
Planner 5D – Home & Interior Design Creator
nofruit Designs Viewer
Hi5 Arlington AR
Augment
Mind Map AR
Experiences
Experiences in AR are pretty cool, even if they’re not interactive games. Download any of these apps to put yourself in a different reality that takes over the world around you!
Star Wars
Star Wars AR Experience
LandscapAR augmented reality
AR+
Ink Hunter
AR OXJNO Demo
QamAR
ARCore GR
Alice ARCore
Horizon Explorer
Educating
These fun apps will give you some sort of an educating experience! From learning anatomy to seeing how things could possibly be repaired, these apps are here to show you a thing or two!
Atom Visualizer for ARCore
ARCore Wikipedia 3D
Anatomy 3D
Augmented Repair
Measuring apps
Please, trust these measuring apps as far as you can throw a boulder. While they are cool and I have hopes for the future of accuracy in measuring by pointing a camera at something, none of these have been proved to be accurate even 40% of the time.
ARCore Measure
Measure AR
AirMeasure – Tape Measure & Ruler
ARCore Augmented Reality Ruler / Measure
Prime Ruler
ARuler – AR Ruler app
Misc
These are a group of miscellaneous apps that don’t really have a place in another category. While they utilize the ARCore function on your phone, they don’t actually appear to have much of a purpose outside of the apps displaying machines.
ARwrld Explorer
Bobbo-Net ARCore Experiments
explorer G3 workstations
explorer G3 workstations
QSight® 210 MD Screening system
chemagic Prime
Source: Android Central