Jumpstart with ARkit?

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Our company has gotten into VR, and was investigating Unity or Unreal for some advanced renderings, then ARkit appeared, and they want to be able to do things like these videos:

We have been looking at Xcode, and Unity + Xcode, but could use some pointers on the path to create a proof of concept using some of our models, so we can present to management. At this stage the time allowed to work on this is limited, and I was hoping someone could help us form a learning path to learn enough Unity to do things like in the videos. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

Steve

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Welcome to the forums, Steve!

So it’s been a day now and you haven’t gotten any responses. I think that’s because this is a tough one to answer. As in all things, the easy – but accurate – answer is: It depends!

  • It depends on your team: how big is this team, what are their skills (and how advanced are they in those skills), their learning potential, how much time they can dedicate to getting up to speed, are they available to learn during their personal time, etc.
  • It depends on your product: How advanced does this POC need to be, what kind of environment does it need to run in.

As always, I’ll recommend the Official Tutorials. It never hurts to go through the Interface lessons to get comfortable with the editor, and although there’s no AR section yet, you could go through the ones about AR’s cousin, VR.

I can’t provide any meaningful schedule for you or even offer a guess as to how long it would take to produce any sort of product. I know that for myself, as a professional software developer and gamedev hobbyist, I’m several years in and feel like I’m still learning by leaps and bounds every day. The stuff I wrote a year ago is trash from the perspective of my current knowledge, and I imagine the same will be true in another year.

Best of luck!

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Thanks for the reply - this is an exciting time to be alive as the advances in technology are coming extremely fast.

We will take a look at the Tutorials and that should give us an idea of a time frame. We may end up waiting until ARkit is released and more docs exist.

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