Question Editor ARTrackable (until Unity AR Remote comes)

Is there a way to manualy - in editor - create ARTrackable (ARTrackedImage, ARPlane, ARAnchor...), so that all the managers would put it in the list.
For example ARTrackedImageManager has an action: ARTrackedImageManager.trackedImagesChanged with args: ARTrackedImagesChangedEventArgs (inside you have added, updated, removed list).
I know you can create ARTrackable, but it is not read by manager, and you can't put it in the list manualy since it is readonly.

My goal is to imitate that i found tracked image or a plane - in editor without building app.
That would improve my development speed very much... Since we all know "Unity AR remote" is never coming

Thank you

 

AR trackables are not meant to be created manually. AR Foundation manages the creation, lifetime, and destruction of all trackables based on events from AR providers.
So the only way to create trackables inside Unity Editor is to create a custom AR provider that will supply AR foundation with the data about trackables. Thankfully, there are several products on the market that can do this, including my plugin

 

Yes i have your plugin. It works good if i use it with the phone, but i don't know what kind of editor capabilities plugin has.
For simple things i would prefer to play directly in editor without phone.

What do you mean by "create a custom AR provider"? Do you have any more information where can i read about that? Is there a simple way to do that? I would appreciate any info or tip about that.
Thank you

 

I can't say it's simple because this method requires creating a lot of scripts.

The 'XR Plugin Management' has a sample of creating a custom AR loader (provider).


After creating a provider, you can register your custom XRPlaneSubsystem subsystem and supply mocked AR data via the GetChanges method.

 

This means creating your own version of ARKit/ARCore, which runs in the Editor.
Is there a simple way to do that? Not really.

To steal a line from Kirill:
Thankfully, there are several products on the market that can do this, including my plugin

Where Kirill's plugin is great for testing with actual real-world data, MockAR can be used to test with completely simulated environments inside of the Editor.