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## Make the world your canvas

Create world scale immersive experiences in over 100 countries using the largest cross-device augmented reality platform. ARCore enables you to seamlessly blend physical and digital worlds using easy to integrate workflows and our learned understanding of the world through Google Maps.

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### ARCore

ARCore is Google’s augmented reality SDK offering cross-platform APIs to build new immersive experiences on Android, iOS, Unity, and Web. Transform the way people play, shop, learn, create, and experience the world together through contextual understanding about people, places, and things.

## Features

Explore APIs and open, integrated solutions that help you simplify your development process and ship modern immersive experiences faster.

### ARCore fundamentals

ARCore provides fundamental tools to help you build your augmented reality experiences, including:

- Motion tracking, which shows positions relative to the world
- Anchors, which ensures tracking of an object’s position over time
- Environmental understanding, which detects the size and location of all types of surfaces
- Depth understanding, which measures the distance between surfaces from a given point
- Light estimation, which provides information about the average intensity and color correction of the environment

### Geospatial API

Attach content remotely to any area mapped by Google Street View and create richer and more robust experiences on a global scale.

### Scene Semantics

Utilize ML models to gain a richer understanding of your surroundings and incorporate common objects.

### Recording and Playback API

Record an augmented reality session that can be replayed later with ARCore, as if it were a live recording.

### Depth API

Add realism through object occlusion, immersion, and interaction to create a richer understanding of your environment.

### Persistent Cloud Anchors

Scan an indoors location and use this saved location later in your augmented reality experience.

### Streetscape Geometry

Interact, visualize, and transform building and terrain geometry for object occlusion or anchored content.

## Featured Partners

Check out how developers, teams, and brands around the world play and build with Google’s AR tools and solutions.





































### TAITO turns the world into a playground with SPACE INVADERS immersive AR game

Join the ranks of an elite pilot force to defend your neighborhood in SPACE INVADERS: World Defense, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the iconic game.

### Scavengar highlights women pioneers through immersive monuments

Learn about women pioneers who made key contributions to culture and science through an immersive digital art storytelling experience.

### Gap and Mattel transform the Times Square Gap Store into a Barbie experience

Enjoy the augmented storefront in New York and interact with Barbie and her friends modeling the new limited edition collection of clothing.

## Our Community

Join a growing community of developers and creators building with ARCore today.

“The whole team was incredibly enthusiastic about trying the Geospatial API. We [had] the idea for a world scale alien invasion game for more than 3 years and we were waiting for the right tech to become available to finally start making it a reality… Augmented Reality. And when we got Geospatial and started checking it the results exceeded our wildest expectations greatly!"

Tim Friedland

CEO of forwARdgame

## Featured Hackathon Submissions

Explore previous winners from various ARCore hackathons.

### World Ensemble

Tap your surroundings to place instruments, switch audio and visual effects, and change the beat.

### Sutro Baths AR Tour

Explore a reconstruction of the Sutro Baths historic landmark at the site of its ruins in San Francisco.

### GEOMAZE - The Urban Quest

Transform the city into an interactive labyrinth to explore the world and learn about local landmarks.

### Simmy

Play notes and launch 3D animations on the facade of MIT’s Simmons Hall in this playable interface.

### Congratulations to the winners of Google’s Immersive Geospatial Challenge

Check out the winners from our latest hackathon featuring submissions using Geospatial Creator in five different categories, including Entertainment & Events and Commerce.

### Congratulations to the winners of the ARCore Geospatial API Challenge

Check out the winners from our previous hackathon featuring submissions using the ARCore Geospatial API in five different categories, including Gaming and Navigation.

## The Latest on ARCore & Geospatial Creator

Catch up on the latest news and events.



FEATURED BLOG POST

### How We Made SPACE INVADERS: World Defense

Learn how the ARCore Geospatial API was used in the SPACE INVADERS: World Defense game to make the world your playground. Discover how the Streetscape Geometry API and Geospatial Creator helped make an immersive augmented reality game.

## Dive right in

Choose a development environment.



### Android

Build a native Android application using ARCore using Kotlin, Java, or C in Android Studio.



### iOS

Use ARCore to augment ARKit capabilities using Objective-C or Swift in XCode.



### Web

Build augmented reality experiences using open web standards powered by the WebXR APIs.



### Adobe Aero

Access Geospatial Creator in Adobe Aero and Google’s photorealistic 3D maps.



### Unity

Download ARCore Extensions and Geospatial Creator to create cross-platform AR experiences.

## Start building with ARCore

Access the technology and capabilities of ARCore APIs.

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