Can an app made with the Room Plan API be used on iPhones without LIDAR?

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Created Mar ’25

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Can an app made with the Room Plan API be used on iPhones without LIDAR? If so, how much accuracy would be lost compared to iPhones with LIDAR? If not, is there an API similar to RoomPlan that works on iPhones without LiDAR?

Answered by DTS Engineer in 828834022

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Yes, in theory but you probably wouldn't want to do it in practice due to substantial loss in accuracy. How much loss is difficult to quantify as it would vary by device.

You would also be forced to estimate depth adding more runtime cost to a solution that already has questionable quality.

For reasons above we do not provide an object or room scanning API without LiDAR.

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Mar ’25

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Hello,

Yes, in theory but you probably wouldn't want to do it in practice due to substantial loss in accuracy. How much loss is difficult to quantify as it would vary by device.

You would also be forced to estimate depth adding more runtime cost to a solution that already has questionable quality.

For reasons above we do not provide an object or room scanning API without LiDAR.

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