Google's iPhone-to-Android AR doodle experiment is now live for you to play with
Multiple people in AR? Across iOS and Android? Get ready for the future.
Maybe you didn't catch the news at this year's Google I/O conference, but Google's developed a fascinating tool for enabling multiplayer AR on phones called Cloud Anchors, which syncs positions across devices. It even works across iOS and Android.
The Just A Line app already existed on Android, and is a doodling app in AR. But the app just went live on iOS, too, and is Google's first Android-to-iOS AR experiment.
To work, both phones trying the collaborative doodling need to be near each other, and then can pair in-app to begin doing ARdoodles together.
The app can be found here for Android, or here for iOS.
Download it (I am), and try it out. Maybe we'll see a lot more of these to come. See below for Cloud Anchor AR games I tried at Google I/O a few weeks ago.
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