TeamViewer Pilot Leads App Innovation with New Google ARCore Depth API – TeamViewer

What’s New

The Depth API provides a better 3D understanding of a given scene through a real-time representation of the distance between physical objects in the camera’s view, allowing AR annotations to be placed more often and much more precisely.

With this new TeamViewer Pilot functionality, it is possible to even re-position placed arrows with direct visual feedback.

It also adds another important enhancement – occlusion, a hard-to-achieve milestone for augmented reality that enables realistic blend-ins between physical and AR objects and enhances the immersive user experience. For example, in the case of TeamViewer Pilot, the expert can place an arrow on one side of an object. If the user then moves to the other side, the arrow will be shown half transparent.

“Integrating ARCore Depth API into TeamViewer Pilot enables us to offer our users a better understanding of the real world with even more accurate 3D annotations,” says Andreas Haizmann, director of product management at TeamViewer. “When our customers use TeamViewer Pilot in industrial, commercial and even home settings, it is very important that the 3D annotations precisely stick to the physical object to minimize mistakes and avoid human error.”