The recently announced 2020 iPad Pro has some interesting hardware features for Augmented Reality.
Is there any info available on an update to arkit and what new features are exposed through the API?
You won’t hear about any cool new features it will enable until WWDC in June.
Ahh, that makes sense. I was hoping to get started sooner while I’m stuck in lockdown!
The ARKit APIs have just been updated. Full geometry access - ARMeshGeometry | Apple Developer Documentation
hehe i guess i spoke too soon! looks awesome. on to the next question: when is this exposed in ARFoundation? 
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We also have a native-code sample for scene geometry reconstruction, object labelling and occlusion:
Would also very much like to hear about plans for this coming to ARFoundation.
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Can’t wait to see what people come up with using the Lidar tech, beyond some of the more obvious scan an object and view it in 3d type use cases - which is still a cool use case - its just interesting to think about other typical AR problems this could unlock
Hi Everyone,
Read the forum and still wondering if we can capture the 3D reconstruct with its texture and save it internally (as we see in videos posted on youtube), but using Lidar and Unity? or say ARFoundation!
I have to start working on a PoC using iPad + Lidar and this information will help me choose if I can work on Unity or will I have to go native!
Thanks in advance
Unity/AR Foundation supports the ARKit scene reconstruction with the LiDAR scanner.
But ARKit can only generate meshes and normals (not sure about UVs, tangents, and vertices colors). So regardless of using native or Unity, you will have to devise your own solution to apply textures to the generated mesh.