Building a Mixed-Reality Tour Guide with Android XR, the Geospatial API, and Gemini

Posted by Coco Fatus, UX Designer, Alon Hetzroni, UX Engineer, Azin Mehrnoosh, Product Manager Android XR At this year’s Google I/O , we announced an update for spatial experiences: the Geospatial API is now available as a preview in ARCore for Jetpack XR . By bringing Google’s Visual Positioning System (VPS) to Android XR, Android XR enables anchoring digital content to the physical world with sub-meter accuracy and precise orientation in supported areas.* To explore what the Geospatial API could unlock, our team built a demo: the XR Geospatial Tour. Imagine walking into a new city, putting o