Integrate iOS device camera and motion features to produce augmented reality experiences in your app or game using ARKit.

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Multiple active AR Sessions in RoomPlan application, who creates them?
I am running a modified RoomPllan app in my test environment I get two ARSessions active, sometimes more. It appears that the first one is created by Scene Kit because it is related go ARSCNView. Who controls that and what gets processed through it? I noticed that I get a lot of Session Interruptions from Sensor Failure when I am doing World Tracking and the first one happens almost immediately. When I get the room capture delegates fired up I start getting images to the delegate via a second session that is collecting images. How do I tell which session is the scene kit session and which one is the RoomCapture session on thee fly when it comes through the delegate? Is there a difference in the object desciptor that I can use as a differentiator? Relying on the Address of the ARSession buffer being different is okay if you get your timing right. It wasn't clear from any of the documentation that there would be TWO or more AR Sessions delivering data through the delegates. The books on the use of ARKIT are not much help in determining the partition of responsibilities between the origins. The buffer arrivals at the functions supported by the delegates do not have a clear delineation of what function is delivered through which delegate discernible from the highly fragmented documentation provided by the Developer document library. Can someone give me some guidance here? Are there sources for CLEAR documentation of what is delivered via which delegate for the various interfaces?
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Mar ’24
Grab frames in Vision Pro using ARFrame
I'd like to grab the current camera frame in visionOS. I have a Swift file (am new to Swift) that looks like this: import ARKit import SwiftUI class ARSessionManager: NSObject, ObservableObject, ARSessionDelegate { var arSession: ARSession override init() { arSession = ARSession() super.init() arSession.delegate = self } func startSession() { let configuration = ARWorldTrackingConfiguration() configuration.planeDetection = .horizontal arSession.run(configuration) } // ARSessionDelegate method to capture frames func session(_ session: ARSession, didUpdate frame: ARFrame) { // Process the frame, e.g., capture image data } } and I get errors including "Cannot find type 'ARSessionDelegate' in scope". Help? Is ARFrame called something different for Vision Pro?
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Mar ’24
ARKit mapping from screen coordinates to Camera frame coordinates. Measurments application
Im working on the following problem: For a measurment application i want to take a picture of something laying on the ground, and given i will have the floor plane detecred, i plan to raycast 4 points from the corners of the screens, given the raycast land on this plane, i want to use those coordinates to do a perspective transform (warp) of the camera-image onto the new coordinates. This way i should be able to perform pixel-per-cm measurments. The prolem i have is the screen coordinates dont seem to reflect the camera-frame coordinates, and im not sure how to go from one to another.
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Mar ’24
SpatialTapGesture and collision surface's normal?
I see example code converting the results of a SpatialTap to a SIMD3 location. For example, from WWDC session Meet ARKit for spatial computing: let location3D = value.convert(value.location3D, from: .global, to: .scene) What I really want is a simd_float4x4 that includes orientation of the surface that the tap gesture/cast collided with? My goal is to place an object with its Y-axis along the normal of the surface that was tapped. For example, in the referenced WWDC session, they create a CollisionComponent from the MeshAnchor data. If that mesh data is covering a curved couch cushion, I would like the normal from that curved cushion (i.e., the closest triangle approximating it). Is this possible? My planned fallback is to only use planes for collision surfaces for tap gestures, extract the tap gesture value's entity (which I am hoping is the plane), and grab its transform for the orientation information. I am hoping Apple has a simple function call that is more general than my fallback approach.
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Mar ’24
Dispatch queue: SurfaceDetectionNode_Scheduler crash
Hello. I'm developing the app using ARKit and RealityKit. The purpose of the app is to scan the apartment and put furniture next to the walls. It works good, but if AR session takes more than 3 mins at some point app is crashed. According to crash report it's not something related to my code. I'm attaching crash report (company data is hidden). Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Mar ’24
Getting to MeshAnchor.MeshClassification from MeshAnchor?
I am working with MeshAnchors, and I am having troubles getting to the classification of the triangles/faces. This post references the MeshAnchor.Geometry, and that struct does have a property named "classifications", but it is of type GeometrySource. I cannot find any classification information in GeometrySource. Am I missing something there? I think I am looking for something of type MeshAnchor.MeshClassification, but I cannot find any structs with this as a property.
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Mar ’24
ARGeoAnchor is missing in visionOS's ARKit
I was heavily reliant on using ARGeoAnchor in my iOS application and when started porting the app to visionOS encountered there is no equivalent there. Which is a huge bummer and showstopper to launching on Apple Vision Pro. Is there any technical limitation that didn't allow devs to port this great piece of functionality? Can we expect it to be added in the future visionOS releases?
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Mar ’24
Using CoreML in VisionOS with Multipeer Connectivity
I've been recently working on a VisionOS app which uses CoreMl to identify specific body parts and display a window with information of the identified body part, since the use of Vision Pro's cameras is blocked, I'm using an iPhone to perform image classification, and then send the label to the headset using Multipeer Connectivity, I'd like to display a volume once the user selects a body part, could my iPhone return enough spatial information for me to be able to fully take advantage of Vision Pro's mixed reality capabilities?
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Mar ’24
RoomPlan Framework v2 - Stairs missing
Hello Community, I'm encountering an issue with the latest iOS 17 update, specifically related to RoomPlan version-2. In iOS 16, when using RoomPlan version-1, we were able to display stairs in our app. However, after upgrading to iOS 17 and implementing RoomPlan version-2, the stairs are no longer visible. Despite thorough investigation, I couldn't find any option within the code to show or hide stairs, or any other objects for that matter. It seems like a specific issue with the update rather than a coding error on our part. Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? If so, I would greatly appreciate any insights or solutions you might have. It's crucial for our app functionality to have stairs displayed accurately, and we're currently at a loss on how to address this issue. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide. Best regards
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Mar ’24
Multi-User AR
I'm developing a motion tracking app that takes requires a real-time view of an iPhone camera to capture the person's body. The motion is mapped to a virtual body. Currently this appears overlayed on the person that the iPhone sees. However, I want to transmit this real time 3D virtual body to a different Apple device, as an AR app, that the other user can place in their environment. Any suggestions on how I can get this 3d model to be viewable by another user (and maintain live updating based on motion tracking)?
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Mar ’24
RealityKit framework crash: cv3d::applecv3d::concurrent_sd::SurfaceDetection::PushAndDetect
I have a RealityKit based app in TestFlight and I see the following crash happening twice. It appears to be coming from the RealityKit framework itself in cv3d::applecv3d::concurrent_sd::SurfaceDetection::PushAndDetect has anyone seen this before and have you discovered what is causing it? Thread 32 Crashed: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00000001cfd81fbc __pthread_kill + 8 (:-1) 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001f271f680 pthread_kill + 268 (pthread.c:1681) 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x000000019069ab90 abort + 180 (abort.c:118) 3 Recon3D 0x0000000211b8cd7c cv3d::acv::surfacedetection::DepthMapPlaneDetector::detect(cv3d::esn::arr::ArrayView<float const, cv3d::esn::dim::DX<2u>, float const*>, cv3d::esn::arr::ArrayView<float const, cv3d::esn::dim::DX<2u... + 6136 (DepthMapPlaneDetector.cpp:346) 4 Recon3D 0x0000000211bb0fe4 cv3d::acv::surfacedetection::SurfaceDetector::detectAndTrack(cv3d::acv::surfacedetection::SurfaceDetector::DetectAndTrackWithDepthParams const&) + 844 (SurfaceDetector.cpp:635) 5 Recon3D 0x000000021142fd24 cv3d::applecv3d::concurrent_sd::SurfaceDetection::PushAndDetect(cv3d::applecv3d::concurrent_sd::InputSemanticsWithDepthBundle const&) + 2672 (SurfaceDetection.cpp:645) 6 Recon3D 0x00000002114678ec cv3d::kit::concurrency::detail::ProcessorInputMessageHandlingStrategy<cv3d::applecv3d::concurrent_sd::InputSemanticsWithDepthBundle, std::experimental::expected<cv3d::applecv3d::concurrent_sd::Surf... + 92 (ProcessorInputMessageHandlingStrategy.h:136) 7 Recon3D 0x00000002114675b4 std::__1::__function::__func<void cv3d::kit::concurrency::detail::Processor<cv3d::applecv3d::concurrent_sd::InputSemanticsWithDepthBundle, std::experimental::expected<cv3d::applecv3d::concurrent_sd... + 184 (function.h:356) 8 Recon3D 0x0000000211794330 void std::__1::__invoke_void_return_wrapper<void, true>::__call<std::__1::future<void> cv3d::esn::thread::IWorkQueue::DispatchAsync<void>(std::__1::function<void ()>&&)::'lambda'()&>(std::__1::futu... + 68 (invoke.h:487) 9 Recon3D 0x0000000212387830 dispatch_async_C_CallBack + 76 (GrandCentralDispatchUtil.cpp:94) 10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001905e2300 _dispatch_client_callout + 20 (object.m:561) 11 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001905e9964 _dispatch_lane_serial_drain + 956 (queue.c:3885) 12 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001905ea3f8 _dispatch_lane_invoke + 432 (queue.c:3976) 13 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001905eb6a8 _dispatch_workloop_invoke + 1756 (queue.c:4485) 14 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001905f5004 _dispatch_root_queue_drain_deferred_wlh + 288 (queue.c:6913) 15 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001905f4878 _dispatch_workloop_worker_thread + 404 (queue.c:6507) 16 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001f271b964 _pthread_wqthread + 288 (pthread.c:2629) 17 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001f271ba04 start_wqthread + 8 (:-1)
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Mar ’24
Frequent session interruption events when running a modified RoomPlan.
When running a modified version of the RoomPlan Demo I get frequent Session Interrupted conditions. In looking at the traces I find a status of SensorDidPause in the interruption Side of the error but am mystified as to how to determine which sensor it was that paused and how to diagnose it. It appears there is a bitmap of available and active sensor devices in the sensor info passed with the session data on the error. In looking at the error status I can see that one or two of the motion sensors have had a problem. How do I do further diagnostic checks on what the cause of the error is? I am also curious why the error occurred as soon as the AR Session for my test started via the “session.run” call. The documentation in this area seems difficult to find. Attached are traces from running the test and stack dumps for the calls. Please send me guidance on how to proceed. The device in question is an iPad iPhone(3) that is attached to the Mac mini named “Hawkeye”. There is no known direct involvement for the Hawkeye system
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Mar ’24
Having issue with two ar session togather
I have the following issue regarding running 2 AR service. I am trying to develop an app for my masters thesis. Case 1: I first scan the room using the roomplan api. Then I stop the roomplan api session and start the realitykit session. When the realitykit session starts, the camera is not showing anything but black screen. Case 2: When I had the issue with case one, I tried a seperate test app where I had 2 seperate screen for roomplan api and realitykit. There is no relation. but as soon as I introduced roomplan api, realitykit stopped working, having the same black screen as above. There might be any states that changed by the roomplan api, that's why realitykit is not able to access the camera. Let me know if you have any idea about it or any sample. I am using the following stack: Xcode - Latest; Swiftui; latest os in mac mini and iphone
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Apr ’24
Vision Pro - viable for industry applications?
I'm in Europe, Vision Pro isn't available here yet. I'm a developer / designer, and I want to find out whether it's worthwhile to try and sell the idea of investing in a bunch of Vision Pro devices as well as in app development for it, to the people overseeing the budget for a project I'm part of. The project is broadly in an "industry" where several constraints apply, most of them are security and safety. So far, all the Vision Pro discussion I've seen is about consumer-level media consumption and tippy-tappy-app-stuff for a broad user base. Now, the hardware and the OS features and SDK definitely look like professional niche use cases are possible. But some features, such as SharePlay, will for example require an Apple ID and internet connection (I guess?). This for example is a strict nope in my case, for security reasons. I'd like to start a discussion of what works and what doesn't work, outside the realm of watching Disney+ in your condo. Potentially, this device has several marks ticked with regards to incredibly useful features in general. very good indoor tracking pass through with good fidelity hands free operation The first point especially, is kind of a really big deal, and for me, the biggest open question. I have multiple make or break questions with regard to this. (These features are not available in the simulator) For sake of argument, lets say the app I'm building is Cave Mapper. it's meant to be used by archeologists inside a cave system where we have no internet, no reliable compass, and no GPS. We have a local network that we can carry around though. We can also bring lights. One feature of the app is to build out a catalog of cave paintings and store them in a database. The archeologist wants to walk around, look at a cave painting, and tap on it to capture its position relative to the cave entrance. The next day, another archeologist may work inside the same cave, and they would want to have synchronised access to the same spatial data from the day before. For that: How good, precise, reliable, stable is the indoor tracking really? Hyped reviewers said it's rock solid, others have said it can drift. How well do the persistent WorldAnchor objects work? How well do they work when you're in a concrete bunker or a cave without GPS? Can I somehow share a world anchor with another user? is it possible to sync the ARKit map that one device has built, with another device? Other showstoppers? in case you cannot share your mapped world or world anchors: How solid is the tracking of an ImageAnchor (which we could physically nail to the cave entrance to use as a shared positional / rotational reference) Other, practical stuff: can you wear Vision Pro with a safety helmet? does it work with gloves?
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Apr ’24
Restarting a stopped ARKitSession in VisionOS causes app to crash
Flow: User enters app and starts an arkit session with worldtracking and scene reconstruction. User closes app so we stop the session. User re-enters app and we try to run the session but app crashes with error: "It is not possible to re-run a stopped data provider. If we remove code to stop the session, when the user re-enters the app the scene reconstruction doesn't work properly and shows inaccurate meshing data. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong here? Any ideas or insight are appreciated
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Apr ’24
Removed WorldAnchors reappear
While WorldTrackingProvider.removeAnchor() completes without error, the WorldAnchor might be back the next time the App is run. This can easily be replicated by the ObjectPlacement sample. Just add 10 objects, Remove All, then run App again. The first run the anchors might be gone, but run the App a couple more times and the anchors will come back. This becomes a big problem when paired with the issue that anchors are not always found when the App enter Immersive mode. When an anchor is not found our App will add an anchor. That usually works fine for that run. The next run, however, the other anchors will show up. Anchors accumulate and it becomes difficult to track.
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Apr ’24