The AR based app I am working on right now is experiencing an issue. Sometimes, the AR session fails with a call to my ARSessionObserver's session(_ session: ARSession, didFailWithError error: Error) with the following error: Error Domain=com.apple.arkit.error Code=102 "Required sensor failed." NSLocalizedFailureReason="A sensor failed to deliver the required input.," NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion="Make sure that the application has the required privacy settings." The underlying error seems to point to the CoreMotion framework: Domain=CMErrorDomain Code=102 "(null) Some people seem to have experienced this issue and solved it by making sure that the Compass Calibration switch is ON in Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services. For context, the ARWorldTrackingConfiguration.worldAlignment is set to .gravity The thing is it is already ON when I experience this issue. I also noticed that this issue happens way more often on the iPhone 16e than in any other device. Has anyone had similar experiences? I am looking for a way to prevent this error from happening (ideally) or handling in a way that does not affect the user. Any help is appreciated

When I run my app from Xcode on a device running iOS 26, the roomplan capture is corrupted and the recording is green and purple. This issue does not occur when I use an older version of iOS or when I run the app via testFlight or the App Store.

Basically, take just the Xcode 26 AR App template, where we put the ContentView as the detail end of a NavigationStack. Opening app, the app uses < 20MB of memory. Tapping on Open AR the memory usage goes up to ~700MB for the AR Scene. Tapping back, the memory stays up at ~700MB. Checking with Debug memory graph I can still see all the RealityKit classes in the memory, like ARView, ARRenderView, ARSessionManager. Here's the sample app to illustrate the issue. PS: To keep memory pressure on the system low, there should be a way of freeing all the memory the AR uses for apps that only occasionally show AR scenes.

I tested the new visionOS object tracking and it worked really well. I have created a reference object using Create ML and it really detected the object. My question is: does it work also with iOS and, if not right now, is it planned to work in mobile iOS in the future?

In visionOS, I want to make a watch. After the actual production, the display of the hand makes it impossible to see the watch due to the virtual watch. How to set up the watch to give priority to display?

How can I create a 3D model of clothing that behaves like real fabric, with realistic physics? Is it possible to achieve this model by photogrammetry? I want to use this model in the Apple Vision Pro and interact with it using hand gestures.

I'm exploring face tracking and experimenting with ARKit's ARSCNFaceGeometry face mesh. I'm running a minimal demo application on the latest iPad Pro M4 11-inch, and I've provided the code below. I've heard that Apple still offers some of the best face tracking technology on consumer devices, largely because they are one of the few that combine depth and image data. Both a colleague and I tested the demo, and while it works as well or better than some other solutions we tried, we weren’t particularly impressed compared to Google’s MediaPipe or Nvidia’s Maxine, both of which rely solely on image data without depth. In our case, the ARKit face mesh doesn’t always align perfectly with the chin, and as the face rotates, in some areas vertices shift by up to a centimeter from their original position. This led us to question whether our demo app was using the TrueDepth sensor at all. To test this, we used a piece of cardboard with a small hole punched in it and taped it over the sensor array, leaving only the camera exposed. On the iOS lock screen, this prevents FaceID from working, but we still get a clear image from the camera. With the TrueDepth sensor blocked, the face mesh tracking in our app still functioned, but honestly, we couldn’t detect a significant difference in tracking performance with or without the TrueDepth sensor obscured. Could we be setting up the face tracking configuration incorrectly? Or has face tracking in newer versions of iOS become less dependent on the TrueDepth sensor? The controller: import SwiftUI import ARKit struct FaceTrackingView1: UIViewControllerRepresentable { func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> FaceTrackingViewController1 { return FaceTrackingViewController1() } func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: FaceTrackingViewController1, context: Context) { } } class FaceTrackingViewController1: UIViewController, ARSCNViewDelegate, ARSessionDelegate { var sceneView: ARSCNView! override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() sceneView = ARSCNView(frame: view.bounds) sceneView.delegate = self sceneView.automaticallyUpdatesLighting = true view.addSubview(sceneView) let config = ARFaceTrackingConfiguration() sceneView.session.run(config) } override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) { super.viewWillDisappear(animated) sceneView.session.pause() } func renderer(_ renderer: SCNSceneRenderer, nodeFor anchor: ARAnchor) -> SCNNode? { guard anchor is ARFaceAnchor else { return nil } let faceGeometry = ARSCNFaceGeometry(device: sceneView.device!)! let faceNode = SCNNode(geometry: faceGeometry) faceNode.geometry?.firstMaterial?.fillMode = .lines // Makes it a wireframe mesh return faceNode } func renderer(_ renderer: SCNSceneRenderer, didUpdate node: SCNNode, for anchor: ARAnchor) { guard let faceAnchor = anchor as? ARFaceAnchor, let faceGeometry = node.geometry as? ARSCNFaceGeometry else { return } faceGeometry.update(from: faceAnchor.geometry) } } The view: import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @State private var isFaceTrackingActive = false var body: some View { VStack { Text("Face mesh tracking demo") .font(.title) .padding() Button(action: { isFaceTrackingActive.toggle() }) { Text("Start Face Tracking") .font(.title2) .padding() .background(Color.blue) .foregroundColor(.white) .cornerRadius(10) } .fullScreenCover(isPresented: $isFaceTrackingActive) { FaceTrackingView1() } } .padding() } } #Preview { ContentView() }

Hey, captureHighResolutionFrame() produces the normal camera shutter sound and that really doesn't fit the ARKit context. I can't override it the usual way because there's no AVCaptureSession object in ARSession. Any ideas on what to do? Thanks!

I'm porting over some code that uses ARKit to Swift 6 (with Complete Strict Concurrency Checking enabled). Some methods on ARSCNViewDelegate, namely Coordinator.renderer(_:didAdd:for:) among at least one other is causing a consistent crash. On Swift 5 this code works absolutely fine. The above method consistently crashes with _dispatch_assert_queue_fail. My assumption is that in Swift 6 a trap has been inserted by the compiler to validate that my downstream code is running on the main thread. In Implementing a Main Actor Protocol That’s Not @MainActor, Quinn “The Eskimo!” seems to address scenarios of this nature with 3 proposed workarounds yet none of them seem feasible here. For #1, marking ContentView.addPlane(renderer:node:anchor:) nonisolated and using @preconcurrency import ARKit compiles but still crashes :( For #2, applying @preconcurrency to the ARSCNViewDelegate conformance declaration site just yields this warning: @preconcurrency attribute on conformance to 'ARSCNViewDelegate' has no effect For #3, as Quinn recognizes, this is a non-starter as ARSCNViewDelegate is out of our control. The minimal reproducible set of code is below. Simply run the app, scan your camera back and forth across a well lit environment and the app should crash within a few seconds. Switch over to Swift Language Version 5 in build settings, retry and you'll see the current code works fine. import ARKit import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @State private var arViewProxy = ARSceneProxy() private let configuration: ARWorldTrackingConfiguration @State private var planeFound = false init() { configuration = ARWorldTrackingConfiguration() configuration.worldAlignment = .gravityAndHeading configuration.planeDetection = [.horizontal] } var body: some View { ARScene(proxy: arViewProxy) .onAddNode { renderer, node, anchor in addPlane(renderer: renderer, node: node, anchor: anchor) } .onAppear { arViewProxy.session.run(configuration) } .onDisappear { arViewProxy.session.pause() } .overlay(alignment: .top) { if !planeFound { Text("Slowly move device horizontally side to side to calibrate") } else { Text("Plane found!") .bold() .foregroundStyle(.green) } } } private func addPlane(renderer: SCNSceneRenderer, node: SCNNode, anchor: ARAnchor) { guard let planeAnchor = anchor as? ARPlaneAnchor, let device = renderer.device, let planeGeometry = ARSCNPlaneGeometry(device: device) else { return } planeFound = true planeGeometry.update(from: planeAnchor.geometry) let material = SCNMaterial() material.isDoubleSided = true material.diffuse.contents = UIColor.white.withAlphaComponent(0.65) planeGeometry.materials = [material] let planeNode = SCNNode(geometry: planeGeometry) node.addChildNode(planeNode) } } struct ARScene { private(set) var onAddNodeAction: ((SCNSceneRenderer, SCNNode, ARAnchor) -> Void)? private let proxy: ARSceneProxy init(proxy: ARSceneProxy) { self.proxy = proxy } func onAddNode( perform action: @escaping (SCNSceneRenderer, SCNNode, ARAnchor) -> Void ) -> Self { var view = self view.onAddNodeAction = action return view } } extension ARScene: UIViewRepresentable { func makeUIView(context: Context) -> ARSCNView { let arView = ARSCNView() arView.delegate = context.coordinator arView.session.delegate = context.coordinator proxy.arView = arView return arView } func updateUIView(_ uiView: ARSCNView, context: Context) { context.coordinator.onAddNodeAction = onAddNodeAction } func makeCoordinator() -> Coordinator { Coordinator() } } extension ARScene { class Coordinator: NSObject, ARSCNViewDelegate, ARSessionDelegate { var onAddNodeAction: ((SCNSceneRenderer, SCNNode, ARAnchor) -> Void)? func renderer(_ renderer: SCNSceneRenderer, didAdd node: SCNNode, for anchor: ARAnchor) { onAddNodeAction?(renderer, node, anchor) } } } @MainActor class ARSceneProxy: NSObject, @preconcurrency ARSessionProviding { fileprivate var arView: ARSCNView! @objc dynamic var session: ARSession { arView.session } } Any help is greatly appreciated!

I am new to learning about concurrency and I am working on an app that uses the HandTrackingProvider class. In the Happy Beam sample code, there is a HearGestureModel which has a reference to the HandTrackingProvider() and this seems to write to a struct called HandUpdates inside the HeartGestureModel class through the publishHandTrackingUpdates() function. On another thread, there is a function called computeTransformofUserPerformedHeartGesture() which reads the values of the HandUpdates to determine whether the user is making the appropriate gesture. My question is, how is the code handling the constant read and write to the HandUpdates struct?

When I first install and run the app, it requests authorization for hand tracking data. But then if I go to the settings and disable hand tracking from the app, it no longer requests. The output of requestAuthorization(for:) method just says [handTracking : denied] Any idea why the push request only shows up once then never again?

Hi guys I'm currently developing a game for the Vision Pro and i'm trying to figure out how the hand tracking works so I can make a superpower appear when the user looks at their hand and widens it. But im really struggling to wrap my head around the whole concept and how to implement it in my code. Is there anything out there (other than apple doc) or anyone who could help me shed some light on the whole idea and how I could actually usefully implement it? would be much appreciated Thanks

We are currently using Apple's Object capture module and wonder if it would be possible to collect the following data : Device information Current translation / rotation Focal length embedded to the image headers GPS localisation information. Information about the exposure time White balances and the color correction matrices We also have 2 additional questions : Is there an option to block close up accomodation of the camera ? Is there a way for the object capture module to take a video instead of a series of picture ?

With Xcode16 and VIsionOS SDK 2.0, result of consecutive ar_anchor_get_timestamp may differ many seconds. Is there any way to detect the timestamp jumping?

In the visionOS App, I want to detect whether the user is in the room. My idea is as follows: Check whether there are walls around the user May I ask how to do it? Thanks！

I have created two scenes, one immersive and one volumetric using Reality Composer Pro. In my test app I can view both and they render correctly. However, I would like to add entities programmatically. I am trying this; var body: some View { RealityView { content in if let scene = try? await Entity(named: "Scene", in: realityKitContentBundle) { viewModel.rootEntity = scene content.add(scene) var anchorEntity = AnchorEntity(world: [0, 0, -0.5]) let sphere = MeshResource.generateSphere(radius: 2.0) let material = SimpleMaterial(color: .red, roughness: 0.5, isMetallic: true) let modelEntity = ModelEntity(mesh: sphere, materials: [material]) anchorEntity.addChild(modelEntity) content.add(anchorEntity) } } } However, the sphere does not appear in the volume. I also tried it in the immersive space and it does not appear there either. What am I missing?

Hello Apple Team, Is it possible to change the zoom factor, exposure, white balance and other settings, of an iOS ARKit session? I know how to do it using an AVCaptureSession, however, I can't figure out how to access the AVCaptureDeviceInput of the current AR session. Thanks PS: I'm using ARkit and RealityKit on iOS 17

if you check the code here, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/compositorservices/interacting-with-virtual-content-blended-with-passthrough var body: some Scene { ImmersiveSpace(id: Self.id) { CompositorLayer(configuration: ContentStageConfiguration()) { layerRenderer in let pathCollection: PathCollection do { pathCollection = try PathCollection(layerRenderer: layerRenderer) } catch { fatalError("Failed to create path collection \(error)") } let tintRenderer: TintRenderer do { tintRenderer = try TintRenderer(layerRenderer: layerRenderer) } catch { fatalError("Failed to create tint renderer \(error)") } Task(priority: .high) { @RendererActor in Task { @MainActor in appModel.pathCollection = pathCollection appModel.tintRenderer = tintRenderer } let renderer = try await Renderer(layerRenderer, appModel, pathCollection, tintRenderer) try await renderer.renderLoop() Task { @MainActor in appModel.pathCollection = nil appModel.tintRenderer = nil } } layerRenderer.onSpatialEvent = { pathCollection.addEvents(eventCollection: $0) } } } .immersionStyle(selection: .constant(appModel.immersionStyle), in: .mixed, .full) .upperLimbVisibility(appModel.upperLimbVisibility) the only way it's dealing with the error is fatalError. And don't think I can throw anything or return anything else? Is there a way I can gracefully handle this and show a message box in UI? I was hoping I could somehow trigger a failure and have https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/openimmersivespaceaction return fail. but couldn't find a nice way to do so. Let me know if you have ideas.

Hi, I’m working on a portfolio project for Vision Pro these days. I have two projects and each of projects are made with Unity and made with Xcode(using ARKit and RealityKit tracking feature). Is it able to combine these two projects in an app? For example, using the buttons made with SwiftUI in a Reality Composer Pro, jumping to a scene in Unity, and back from a scene in Unity to a scene in Reality Composer Pro in an app.

Hi! I'm making content using Room Tracking for vision pro these days. So I searched information about it. Here the links I visited. But I could not found the info I wanted to know Apple ARKit Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit RoomTrackingProvider I wanna know that if it's possible remembering room structure that recognized before and adding contents in certain world anchor in the room space when user entered the room again? For example, a developer can save the room structure, room info (with room ID) and world anchor of the room with Room Tracking feature. After this, the developer can add entities via Xcode and Reality Composer Pro in certain position of the room to show contents to users when users enter the room. So users can see the contents whenever they visit the room. Is this possible? If there are example codes or projects about it, please let me know.