San Francisco May 16 (IANS) Samsung s latest flagships Galaxy S9 and S9+ will reportedly now support Google s augmented reality (AR) developer platform ARCore.
"Google has updated its ARCore support page listing both the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ with all major variants. This means that users will be able to download the ARCore app from Google Play on these devices " 9to5Google reported on Tuesday.
Google s ARCore makes it easier for developers to use the smartphone s combination of hardware and software to create AR applications. Without ARCore support AR apps won t run on phones as well as they could with Google s optimization tools.
Once installed the Galaxy S9 devices will give users access to ARCore applications like Just a Line IKEA s Place and in-app features from Amazon or eBay.
Earlier this year when Samsung launched the S9 family the company had added that the devices would support Google s AR developer platform but that was not the case during the launch.

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