Hands-on with the Asus ZenFone AR, which is arriving just in time to compete with ARKit
Google has been working on Tango, its AR platform for smartphones, since 2013. Since then, only one smartphone has shipped that supports Tango: the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, which I reviewed back in December. Now, the second Tango phone is here.
Well, sort of.
Asus still hasn’t said exactly when its Tango-equipped smartphone, the new ZenFone AR, will ship, nor has it said how much it will cost. But the company did host a press event in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, inviting people like myself to come and try out production-ready units of the ZenFone AR, which suggested that its actual launch is imminent.
The first thing that struck me about the ZenFone AR is how thin…
