ARfoundation Editor view / preview

Am I missing something , but is there no way. To run the ARfoundation view in Editor .
I appreciate that it uses ARcore so presuming that’s why cannot access a Windows Webcam ( like Vuforia does ).

But is there not an ability to run it live on the device ?

The XR simulation feature just doesn’t seem as intuitive as a real live view would be .

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There is a paid asset called AR Foundation Remote which allows testing on the device without building and with transmitting the data to the editor.

I made a comparison table for this asset and XR Simulation:

Thanks , I had seen this asset. But was hoping there was some intergrated ability.
I will stick with Vuforia for quick testing of image tracking projects.
But might have to consider the Asset in the future , although quite expensive in price.
But would save time in testing hopefully.

Thanks

Unfortunately, no.

There was an attempt by Unity to implement such an app, but for Unity MARS only.

There are apps for iOS and Android, and possibly, they are working today, but as I understand there is no intention to developer these apps further as well as Unity MARS because some features such as XR Simulation were moved from Unity MARS to AR Foundation, and last 3 years we have updates for AR Foundation only.

At Unity, we refer to the ability to round-trip data from a device to the Editor and back as “AR Remoting”. Years ago we began an effort to develop our own AR Remoting solution, but this was cancelled a while back.

We officially support Quest Link on Meta Quest devices, and the in-Editor XR Simulation tool which does allow you to test image tracking in Play Mode. (Happy to answer any questions if you have them.)

If you specifically want to use an AR Remoting workflow, AR Foundation Remote is a popular third-party solution.

Unity will likely never develop our own bespoke AR framework that works with a webcam. We are not an augmented reality provider – we’re a cross-platform game engine built on top of other AR platforms :).

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