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Now available, ARCore SDK Preview 2 for Unity: Technical improvements to Developer Preview

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by MauricioVergara, Dec 15, 2017.

  1. MauricioVergara

    MauricioVergara

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    Google just introduced an updated ARCore SDK Preview with many stability and performance improvements. They’ve also confirmed the commercial version (ARCore v1.0), which will come at a later day will support over 100 million devices.

    Here is on overview of some of the main technical improvements introduced with the updated ARCore SDK Preview:
    • C API is now a public Android NDK that complements the existing ARCore SDK for Unity.

    • Pause and resume AR sessions. With ARCore, AR apps can now pause a session and continue tracking after app is resumed.

    • Improved runtime efficiency. Faster time-to-plane-detection.

    • Improved trackable and anchor interface across anchor, plane finding, and point cloud APIs.

    • Many other stability and performance improvements
    Google and Unity are committed to enable our developers to SHAPE THE WORLD! The time is now to experiment with ARCore for Unity.


    To learn more about the upgrades introduced with the ARCore Developer Preview 2, check out Google VR and AR announcement and visit the ARCore portal.
     
    MauricioVergara, Dec 15, 2017
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  2. BlackPete

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    Excellent news!

    I do see two gotchas with this release that's worth highlighting:

    * Apps built with the original ARCore SDK Developer Preview are only compatible with the original arcore-preview.apk. Apps built with ARCore SDK Developer Preview 2 are only compatible with arcore-preview2.apk

    * Unity 2017.3.f2 and up required.
     
    BlackPete, Dec 15, 2017
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  3. andrzej_

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    And still no S8+ support?

    EDIT: Sorry for complaining before giving it a go. It actually works! The S8+ is still not listed in the supported device, but I installed the new package and ARCore apk and works like a charm!

    SM-G955F model
     
    Last edited: Dec 16, 2017
    andrzej_, Dec 16, 2017
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