A demo game created by Google allows iPhone and Android users to shoot each other in augmented reality.
No, it isn’t platform wars getting out of control, but rather a demonstration of a way to allow Apple’s ARKit and Android’s ARCore to access the same augmented reality world …
CNET got a demo at Google’s I/O developer conference.
It works using what Google calls Cloud Anchors, which are ‘shared points of data shared in the cloud that multiple devices can access’ using either ARKit or ARCore or both.
As well as cross-platform multiplayer AR games, Google hopes the same technology can be used for more practical applications.
The game is expected to be available within the next couple of weeks.
