Best Augmented Reality (AR) Apps!

Matt Alcock
11 min readApr 16, 2018

Augmented reality has allowed many developers to create innovative apps and amazing features that surprise and delight users. The technology itself has been around for many years but recently with support from Apples ARKit and Googles ARCore things that were just futuristic dreams have started to come alive in apps we can all download for free. As the technology is improving, newer and more advanced apps have surfaced on the market, we have made a list of best 15 AR apps available for Android and iOS users today.

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1. Pokémon GO

Pokémon GO in use — https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16798388/pokemon-go-niantic-apple-iphone-ios-arkit-augmented-reality-ar-plus

Pokémon GO became popular world-wide as soon as it was published by Niantic in 2016. It is one of the first AR apps to introduce and feature groundbreaking AR technology. The game itself came after various successful Pokémon games, but it is also a world-wide popular anime that many generations grew up watching. Pokémon GO is available for both Android and iOS devices for free, and it uses GPS to sync your location and move your in-game avatar. More importantly, the game became so popular that it led to world-wide events where players of Pokémon GO marched together and exchanged their…

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Matt Alcock

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