TECHNOLOGY AND TUTORIALS

Asus ZenFone AR review: Bending reality, one Tango at a time                "The ZenFone AR is the world's first smartphone that is both Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready" -- this is how Asus describes its new high-end phone. While Tango is a set of sensors and computer-vision software that enables smartphone augmented reality, Daydream is a platform for high-quality, mobile virtual reality achieved through Daydream VR apps. Both Tango and Daydream are technologies built by Android-maker Google. Asus claims it has worked closely with Google (and Qualcomm) to effectively blur the gap between augmented and virtual reality through the ZenFone AR. The ZenFone AR is notably the world's second smartphone -- the first being Lenovo's Phab 2 Pro -- to support Google's Tango technology. The ZenFone AR is however, the world's first (and only) smartphone to support Tango as well as Daydream. Because computer-vision workloads and graphics of T...

AR Gesture Control Arrives ManoMotion has announced that it has successfully integrated its 3D real-time hand gesture recognition technology with Apple's ARKit, and soon Google’s ARCore for advanced Android phones. ManoMotion’s technology lets people use their actual hands in VR/AR/MR for interaction with virtual objects. ManoMotion's SDK in now available to developers on its website. Over six hundred downloaded the SDK (software developer kit) the first day it was available. ManoMotion MonoMotion of Sweeden announces 3D real-time hand gesture recognition technology for Apple's ARKit, and soon Google’s ARCore for advanced Android phones. ManoMotion is a computer vision-based software company founded in 2015. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, and with a sales and marketing office in Palo Alto, California, ManoMotion’s long-term vision is to bring unparalleled intuition to human-machine interactions using gesture technology. They have developed a core technology f...