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See that little critter hide? That's occlusion.
This week's AR news has been focused on , many of which lean on the depth-scanning hardware only on the recent iPad Pro. Google announced its own AR news this week, too, and you won't need specialized hardware to use its depth-sensing tools. A , announced and available today, will be able to make 3D meshes of environments and use them to lay virtual objects down more realistically. Virtual objects will even appear to hide behind real ones through a technique called occlusion.
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Google , but it's just becoming available now. Google has already announced a number of apps that will use the depth functions in AR, including Garnelengarten - Onlineshop für Aquaristik & Terraristik | Ihr Spezialist für Nano-Aquaristik bis große Aquarien - Hardscapes - Aquascaping - großes Sortiment an Naturprodukten update to a key Samsung app. The Quick Measure AR app in the and will gain extra depth-improvement updates for measurements “in the coming months,” according to Google. A demo reel of what the depth-sensing AR can do is embedded below; a lot of it looks impressive.