I am using AccessoryTrackingProvider from ARKit to get the transform of the PSVR2 controller via originFromAnchorTransform of the AccessoryAnchor. I also am trying to use AnchorEntity on the controller using RealityKit
However, none of the three options for Accessory.LocationName, which should be used to define the AnchorEntity target, seem to match the position on the controller which is being sent from ARKit.
The picture attached is showing two transforms:
RealityKit - using .gripSurface to define the AnchoringComponent.Target.accesssory location.
ARKit - using originFromAnchorTransform for AccessoryTrackingProvider.
They are not aligned at the same point.
As for the other options of Accessory.LocationName, using .aim is located at the tip of the controller and .grip is the same position as .gripSurface but with a different orientation.
I am wondering why there is not an option for Accessory.LocationName that actually matches the transform captured by ARKit?
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Hardware Specifications Regarding the LiDAR scanner in the iPhone 13/14/15/16/17 Pro series, could you please provide the following technical details for academic verification:
Point Cloud Density / Resolution: The effective resolution of the depth map.
Sampling Frequency: The sensor's refresh rate.
Accuracy Metrics: Official tolerance levels regarding depth accuracy relative to distance (specifically within 0.5m – 2m range).
Data Acquisition Methodology For a scientific thesis requiring high data integrity: Does Apple recommend a custom ARKit implementation over third-party applications (e.g., Polycam) to access raw depth data? I need to confirm if third-party apps typically apply smoothing or post-processing that would obscure the sensor's native performance, which must be avoided for my error analysis.
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
ARKit
ARSession provides video stream from the wide angle camera. If ARSession uses the ultra wide camera at the same time, ARSession may provide video stream from that camera, otherwise AVCaptureSession with an ultra wide camera should be allowed to launch. It would be very very useful if we can access different cameras while ARSession is running. We'd like to cooperate with you if possible.
Steps to reproduce: run an AVCaptureSession and then run an ARSession. The AVCaptureSession stops.
Hello All,
I'm desperate to found a solution and I need your help please.
I've create a simple cube in Vision OS. I can get it by hand (close my hand on it) and move it pretty where I want. But, I would like to throw it (exemple like a basket ball). Not push it, I want to have it in hand and throw it away of me with a velocity and direction = my hand move (and finger opened to release it).
Please put me on the wait to do that.
Cheers and thanks
Mathis
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
ARKit
I am working on a project that requires access to the main camera on the Vision Pro. My main account holder applied for the necessary enterprise entitlement and we were approved and received the Enterprise.license file by email. I have added the Enterprise.license file to my project, and manually added the com.apple.developer.arkit.main-camera-access.allow entitlement to the entitlement file and set it to true since it was not available in the list when I tried to use the + Capability button in the Signing & Capabilites tab.
I am getting an error: Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: " doesn't include the com.apple.developer.arkit.main-camera-access.allow entitlement. I have checked the provisioning profile settings online, and there is no manual option for adding the main camera access entitlement, and it does not seem to be getting the approval from the license.
We're developing a VisionOS application, where we would like to do product recognition (like food items).
We have enterprise entitlements and therefore also main camera access for VisionOS. We send this live camera frames to a trained CoreML model where we will receive 2D coordinates from the model detection prediction.
Now, we would like to create a 3D anchor on the detected items so it can be visible for user. The 3D anchor is going to be the class name of the detected item.
How do we transform this 2D coordinate from the model prediction to a 3D anchor?
I'm trying to implement a prototype to render virtual objects in a mixed immersive space on the camer frames captured by CameraFrameProvider.
Here are what I have done:
Get camera's instrinsics from frame.primarySample.parameters.intrinsics
Get camera's extrinsics from frame.primarySample.parameters.extrinsics
Get the device anchor by worldTrackingProvider.queryDeviceAnchor(atTimestamp: CACurrentMediaTime())
Setup a RealityKit.RealityRenderer to render virtual objects on the captured camera frames
let realityRenderer = try RealityKit.RealityRenderer()
realityRenderer.cameraSettings.colorBackground = .outputTexture()
let cameraEntity = PerspectiveCamera()
// see https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/770235
let cameraTransform = deviceAnchor.originFromAnchorTransform * extrinsics.inverse
cameraEntity.setTransformMatrix(cameraTransform, relativeTo: nil)
cameraEntity.camera.near = 0.01
cameraEntity.camera.far = 100
cameraEntity.camera.fieldOfViewOrientation = .horizontal
// manually calculated based on camera intrinsics
cameraEntity.camera.fieldOfViewInDegrees = 105
realityRenderer.entities.append(cameraEntity)
realityRenderer.activeCamera = cameraEntity
Virtual objects, which should be seen in the camera frames, are clipped out by the camera transform.
If I use deviceAnchor.originFromAnchorTransform as the camera transform, virtual objects can be rendered on camera frames at wrong positions (I think it is because the camera extrinsics isn't used to adjust the camera to the correct position).
My question is how to use the camera extrinsic matrix for this purpose?
Does the camera extrinsics point to a similar orientation of the device anchor with some minor rotation and postion change? Here is an extrinsics from a camera frame. It seems that the direction of Y-axis and Z-axis are flipped by the extrinsics. So the camera is point to a wrong direction.
simd_float4x4([[0.9914258, 0.012555369, -0.13006608, 0.0], // X-axis
[-0.0009778949, -0.9946325, -0.10346654, 0.0], // Y-axis
[-0.13066702, 0.10270659, -0.98609203, 0.0], // Z-axis
[0.024519, -0.019568002, -0.058280986, 1.0]]) // translation
We’re using the enterprise API for spatial barcode/QR code scanning in the Vision Pro app, but we often get invalid values for the barcode anchor from the API, leading to jittery barcode positions in the UI. The code we’re using is attached below.
import SwiftUI
import RealityKit
import ARKit
import Combine
struct ImmersiveView: View {
@State private var arkitSession = ARKitSession()
@State private var root = Entity()
@State private var fadeCompleteSubscriptions: Set = []
var body: some View {
RealityView { content in
content.add(root)
}
.task {
// Check if barcode detection is supported; otherwise handle this case.
guard BarcodeDetectionProvider.isSupported else { return }
// Specify the symbologies you want to detect.
let barcodeDetection = BarcodeDetectionProvider(symbologies: [.code128, .qr, .upce, .ean13, .ean8])
do {
try await arkitSession.requestAuthorization(for: [.worldSensing])
try await arkitSession.run([barcodeDetection])
print("Barcode scanning started")
for await update in barcodeDetection.anchorUpdates where update.event == .added {
let anchor = update.anchor
// Play an animation to indicate the system detected a barcode.
playAnimation(for: anchor)
// Use the anchor's decoded contents and symbology to take action.
print(
"""
Payload: \(anchor.payloadString ?? "")
Symbology: \(anchor.symbology)
""")
}
} catch {
// Handle the error.
print(error)
}
}
}
// Define this function in ImmersiveView.
func playAnimation(for anchor: BarcodeAnchor) {
guard let scene = root.scene else { return }
// Create a plane sized to match the barcode.
let extent = anchor.extent
let entity = ModelEntity(mesh: .generatePlane(width: extent.x, depth: extent.z), materials: [UnlitMaterial(color: .green)])
entity.components.set(OpacityComponent(opacity: 0))
// Position the plane over the barcode.
entity.transform = Transform(matrix: anchor.originFromAnchorTransform)
root.addChild(entity)
// Fade the plane in and out.
do {
let duration = 0.5
let fadeIn = try AnimationResource.generate(with: FromToByAnimation<Float>(
from: 0,
to: 1.0,
duration: duration,
isAdditive: true,
bindTarget: .opacity)
)
let fadeOut = try AnimationResource.generate(with: FromToByAnimation<Float>(
from: 1.0,
to: 0,
duration: duration,
isAdditive: true,
bindTarget: .opacity))
let fadeAnimation = try AnimationResource.sequence(with: [fadeIn, fadeOut])
_ = scene.subscribe(to: AnimationEvents.PlaybackCompleted.self, on: entity, { _ in
// Remove the plane after the animation completes.
entity.removeFromParent()
}).store(in: &fadeCompleteSubscriptions)
entity.playAnimation(fadeAnimation)
} catch {
print("Error")
}
}
}
I can add a WorldAnchor to a WorldTrackingProvider. The next time I start my app, the WorldAnchor is added back, and then is immediately removed:
dataProviderStateChanged(dataProviders: [WorldTrackingProvider(0x0000000300bc8370, state: running)], newState: running, error: nil)
AnchorUpdate(event: added, timestamp: 43025.248134708, anchor: WorldAnchor(id: C0A1AE95-F156-45F5-9030-895CAABF16E9, isTracked: true, originFromAnchorTransform: <translation=(0.048458 0.000108 -0.317565) rotation=(0.00° 15.44° -0.00°)>))
AnchorUpdate(event: removed, timestamp: 43025.348131208, anchor: WorldAnchor(id: C0A1AE95-F156-45F5-9030-895CAABF16E9, isTracked: false, originFromAnchorTransform: <translation=(0.000000 0.000000 0.000000) rotation=(-0.00° 0.00° 0.00°)>))
It always leaves me with zero anchors in .allAnchors...the ARKitSession is still active at this point
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
ARKit
I use ARKit to build an app, scan rooms to collect the spatial data of objects and re-construct the 3D scene.
the problem is I found the depth map values captured in ARFrame significantly deviate from the real distances, even nonlinearly, for the distances below 1.5m, values are basically correct, but beyond 1.5m, they are smaller than real values. for example read 1.9m from the generated depthmap.tiff, but real distance is 3 meters.
below is my code of generating tiff file to record depth map data:
Generated TIFF file (captured from ARKit):
as shown above, the maximum distance is around 1.9m, but real distance to that wall is more than 3 meters, and also you can see, the depth map picture captured in ARKit is quite blurry, particularly at far distance (> 2.0m), almost smeared out.
Generated TIFF file (captured from AVFoundation):
In comparison, the depth map captured from traditional AVFoundation and with the same hardware device is much clear, the values seem not in meter unit though.
Hello,
I was looking back into downloading the Tracking geographic locations in AR sample app from https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/tracking-geographic-locations-in-ar
Unfortunately the Download links to the .zip of the DisplayingAPointCloudUsingSceneDepth sample project.
The exact same issue occurs when trying to download the sample code from https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ARKit/creating-a-fog-effect-using-scene-depth
Wondering if those links are deliberately broken because of possible deprecations.
Thanks to any Apple Engineer willing to look into that.
Hi folks, I’m new to Vision Pro stack, still trying to learn all the nuances. Here is a problem I can’t seem to find an answer.
I placed entity A( a small .02 radius sphere) inside entity B( size:.1 box). Both entities have HoverEffectComponent, and both inputcomponent is set to .direct. Entity A is NOT a child of Entity B. When I direct touch Entity B, I noticed that Entity A’s hover effect is fired as well. This only happens if Entity A‘s position is inside Entity B. The gesture that is only targeted at Entity A doesn’t work either. I double checked Entity A collider which sits inside entity B collider, my direct touch shouldn’t have trigger its hove effect. Having one collider inside another seems to produce unpredictable behavior? Thanks in advance 🙏🙏🙏
Context: I’m trying to create an invisible bound around Entity A, so when my hand approaches the bound to grab Entity A, a nice spotlight hover effect would fire first on the bound before hand reaching entity A.
Still don't understand why no one is clarifying about this Apple Video https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10111
At the end of this video, there's an incomplete tutorial about connecting a USDZ with mesh and Skeleton structure to the hand tracking system. No example project is linked, and no one is giving the community any clarification. Please can you help us to understand how to proceed?
I am a newby of spatial computing and I am using ARKit and RealityKit to develop a visionPro app.
I want to accomplish such a goal: If the user's hand touchs an object(an entity in RealityView) on the table, it will post a Window. But I do not know how to handle the event "the user's hand touchs the object". Should I use hand tracking feature to do some computing by myself? Or is there some api to use directly?
Thank you!
I am developing an ARKit based application that requires plane detection of the tabletop at which the user is seated. Early testing was with an iPhone 8 and iPhone 8+. With those devices, ARKit rapidly detected the plane of the tabletop when it was only 8 to 10 inches away. Using iPhone 15 with the same code, it seems to require me to move the phone more like 15 to 16 inches away before detecting the plane of the table. This is an awkward motion for a user seated at a table. To validate that it was not necessarily a feature of my code, I determined that the same behavior results with Apple's sample AR Interaction application. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so, have suggestions to improve the situation?
I am developing an visionos app. I load a .usdz file as a Reality Entity(such as a cabbage). And I want such an effect:
When I turn on a desk lamp in real world near the Entity, the surface of the Entity will correctly respond to the light in the real world.
I want an effect like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/1as01mm/shiny_disco_ball_reflecting_my_room/
I look up the api such as ImageBasedLightComponent andVirtualEnvironmentProbeComponent in RealityKit、EnvironmentLightEstimationProvider in ARKit,but I do not know how to code.
Besides, it will be better if the shadow will also respond to the light correctly.
As I understand it there are two ways I can track a hand, or a joint, in RealityKit:
either, create an AnchorEntity, for example AnchorEntity(.hand(.left, location: .palm))
or, set up an ARSession with a HandTrackingProvider ( a lot more code which I haven't repeated here).
Assuming this is correct, when would I want to use one over the other?
We applied for the visionOS enterprise permission license, which can help us improve object tracking capabilities on Vision Pro. However, we are unsure how to use it in Unity, specifically how to implement object tracking in Unity and increase the tracking speed.
Hello,
I am developing a visionOS application and am interested in obtaining detailed data of users’ hands through ARKit, including but not limited to Transform and rotation angle. I have reviewed Happy Beem, but it appears to only introduce the method of identifying the user’s specific gestures.
Could you please advise on how to obtain the Transform and rotation angle of the user’s hand?
Thank you.
I want adding grounding shadow on my Entity in RealityView on visionPro. However it seems that the shadow can only appear on another Entity. So I using plane detection in ARKit and add a transparent plane on it to render shadow.
let planeEntity = ModelEntity(mesh: .generatePlane(width: anchor.geometry.extent.width, height: anchor.geometry.extent.height), materials: [material])
planeEntity.components.set(OpacityComponent(opacity: 0.0))
But sometimes there will be a border around my Entityon the plane.
I do not know why it will happen, and I want remove the border.