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Google partners with OEMs to bring AR service to China
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IANS | 24 Feb, 2018
To make further inroads in China, Google has partnered with three
Chinese Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to bring its Augmented
Reality (AR) service to the country.
Company's AR SDK for Android
"ARCore" was launched in full in China following its announcement in
November, Tech Crunch reported late Friday.
According to Google, there are 100 million devices that support ARCore right now in the market.
Most
Google services in China do not work due to the censorship, but Xiaomi,
Huawei and Samsung have all signed on to release devices that will
include ARCore support over the coming months, the report added.
These
devices would be "higher-end" smartphones. The software side is
"trickier since the Google Play Store is not available in the country
and the third-party app store is fragmented", Xiaomi, Huawei and Samsung
would release ARCore apps through their own app stores.
As
ARCore itself works on device -- without the Cloud -- once apps are
downloaded to a phone, there is nothing that China's internet censors
can do to disrupt them.
Last year, the company launched Google
Translate app, which was also offered via a number of third-party
Android stores and a direct download.
Recently, Google partnered with Tencent, invested in China-based startups and announced an AI lab in Beijing.
Google
also gained a large tech presence in Taiwan via the completion of its
acquisition of a chunk of HTC and it opened a presence in Shenzhen
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