AR Foundation & Unity 02: Setup for iOS

[@yizhouchen3297]

Thank u! It's really nice. And basically I have no experience in building ios app, and when I was trying to display it on the phone, Xcode released lots of errors. Could you pls put the link as mentioned in the video? Thank u.

[@blok1]

Great video Dinesh, followed this and when deployed to iphone the cube shows but the background is black. What am I doing wrong?

[@luketechco]

I have the same issue

[@orangecat6807]

Thank you! Nice watching it until I realized I don't have a Macbook. But still grateful :3

[@DineshPunni]

haha no worries, there is a video for Android as well! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zp7TpJyFZ9F2rpI

[@stefanroth328]

I finally managed to deploy this stuff to my iPhone-12-Pro. When I launch the app, it very shortly shows the cube for a glimpse and then shows the (dynamic) camera picture. The cube has disappeared then. What am I missing out?

[@younglee4442]

This is very helpful tutorial! I also have error appearing when I try to run the exported unity file on my iphone. Where can I find the tutorial for the xcode?

[@DineshPunni]

Unfortunately with building for iOS it‘s a bit more complicated. Definitely check out the official Apple Documentation on provisioning and signing your app

[@bradb5129]

I have this same problem and I can't find any documentation on it. Do you have anything I can do?

[@EL_IQBAL]

my build extension is not .xcodeproj but .pbxproj , and it can't be open immidiately but need an application for open it, please help. what should i do?

[@clairesong3341]

It's great! But I meet some problems :( I follow all your steps and I can build it in xcode successfully, but I cannot open the app on my phone. When I click it, the screen is black and the app quits immediately. Could you help me?

[@TheAntimon13]

I have exactly the same issue. Maybe some changes to AR Foundation recently?

[@anshumkhandelwal7541]

I have the exact same issue, were you able to resolve please?

[@tesselliot3388]

@@anshumkhandelwal7541 I fixed this by updating my phone to 13.4.1

[@Kryptstar_mack]

Hey Dinesh, I got the app to open, but the screen is black, all i can see is the white sphere in the middle...

[@DineshPunni]

You should see a popup that asks for camera persmission. Unfortunately it only shows up in the first startup. If you didn't accept it you may want to reinstall the app

[@rishikaul22]

Can you add a button on a ViewController to open a unity AR screen?

[@DineshPunni]

Do you mean from within an native iOS app or from an Unity created iOs app? There is some native integration for adding Unity scenes as a library, but it‘s not published yet.

[@rishikaul22]

Yes, from within a native iOS app

[@xdboy500]

Hey @Dinesh Punni, do you recommend the AR Template from Unity for making IOS games? Because the video is from 2019 and I am not sure, if this template already existed, while you was making this video.

[@DineshPunni]

Heyhey back then the template didn't exist. I haven't used to to give you a definitive answer on that but since it's an official Unity template I'd assume that it's a good decision. Just try it out and if it works fine than there is no reason not to use the official Unity AR Template.

[@DextraVisual]

How do you refresh the session?

[@mohammadrasoulfard-habibi3066]

Great tutorial buddy. I've got a question. Will depth sensors on phone camera's be important in the future for augmented reality apps? As I'm about to buy a new phone for augmented reality development.

[@DineshPunni]

Hey Mohammad, thanks for the comment! Highly appreciated :) I think depth sensors will play a big role in AR, since they allow you to have much better AR experiences.

[@mohammadrasoulfard-habibi3066]

@@DineshPunni Sweet buddy Samsung S20 plus it is then, I was going to get a pixel but 4 doesn't have a depth sensor. Are you doing any more augment reality tutorials? There are the best I've seen if I'm honest absolutely smashing it bro.

[@blabberbytes9967]

How do you get the app other phones? I'm trying to develop an ar experience for the public.

[@jessicaoreilly9260]

Thank You. This was great.

[@loransalabood3386]

It is surprising to me that you have this lesson for IOS for free on KZbin but it is not there on your paid platform!

[@DineshPunni]

In the AR course, there is a link that points to this video, when I talk about iOS development. Hope you enjoy the course so far. If you have any questions just let me know!

[@nithinkashyap7242]

Hi First of all great tutorial hats off to ua commitment I created the experience as u created in the tutorial but when I push it to the mobile I am getting the black screen along with the cube. It's not asking for any permission as you said in one of the comments.

[@DineshPunni]

Go to: Edit > Project Settings > XRPlugin-Management and then check the box for 'AR Core'. This should fix the black screen. You might also need to enable permissions on your phone.

[@RooJJu]

Hi ! I managed to make it working playing with the size of the gameobject ! But when I want my object to appear really closed to the camera, it slides with the movement of my camera. Do you have any idea how to solve this problem. I think it has to do with the distance with the camera but I’ve seen many videos in which objects appear mid-air right in front of the camera and the tracking is perfect..

[@DineshPunni]

You can change the camera clipping plane on your ARCamera gameobject

[@RooJJu]

Dinesh Punni thank you ! I solved it by changing the scales of the gameobject, the smaller he is the better it appears

[@anishpihakote9318]

Hello, I followed your tutorial but my cube doesn't seem to be placed like yours. It moves around with the phone and is not stable in one place

[@DineshPunni]

This could be do to your phone. The stability of the tracking also depends on the phone. What phonr did you use?

[@anishpihakote9318]

@@DineshPunni I am testing it on an iPad . I just figured it out. Thanks for the tutorial and the reply, really appreciate it.

[@RooJJu]

Anish Pihakote Can you please tell us how you figured it out ?

[@anishpihakote9318]

@@RooJJu ​ RooJJu Hi, Like @Dinesh Punni said in his reply, it was to do more with the Hardware. I found out the company I was developing it for did not have an iPad that had an A9 or A10 chip in it. So it did not support the tracking feature. So, instead, I had to look for alternatives like Vuforia and other measures that helped me override the problem. One of the measures is from this: stackoverflow.com/questions/45528366/not-able-to-install-my-arkit-supported-app-in-iphone-6-but-demo-app-by-apple-is

[@RooJJu]

Anish Pihakote Thank you ! I have this problem with the Iphone 9, I will try with the latest iPad

[@macrowaves624]

WHere is the IOSBuilding link?

[@nannaceciliehansen168]

Hi Dinesh, When I click "build" and create a new folder for "builds" my Mac only allows me to choose (and not save) that folder. It does load for a little bit but the folder is empty once I open it. Any suggestions to what I am doing wrong? Thank you for a great video :)

[@juliavasquez9001]

Is missing in the video but when you click on Player Settings yo have to go to XR Settings and enable "Vuforia Augmented Reality"

[@blubariblub6960]

Do you really need a mac to do this ?

[@DineshPunni]

For iOS officially yes. There are some workaround with Windows as well however, but haven't got them working smoothly yet

[@LorsenHerisdersen]

Thank you so much!

[@AdamTeale]

Thank you! Great tutorial!

[@DineshPunni]

Thanks! :)

[@volgalgzkaradagoglu]

Hi, the app does not use camera. All I see is white cube on black screen. IDK what did I do wrong

[@DineshPunni]

Which version of Unity and AR Foundation are you using?

[@nithinkashyap7242]

Even i have the same issue. Can you do let me know if its working fine with any updates

[@heekyung622]

@@nithinkashyap7242 Hi I had the same issue and I solved it by going into unity > edit > project settings > XR-plug-in Management > ios > and then make sure the ARKit in plug-in-providers is checked/selected! After that if you build again, the app will ask for camera permission! I hope this works!

[@raulpetre8062]

@@heekyung622 Thank you so much, this comment saved me

[@davidtorres5012]

Thanks a lot ! I

[@DineshPunni]

You are welcome!

[@IFLocation-2025]

Thank you for this!

[@DineshPunni]

I'm glad I could help you! 💪

[@marinette4032]

I can not find my package manager in unity 2017 !!

[@DineshPunni]

Try using Unity 2019! :)

[@marinette4032]

@@DineshPunni I'm using unity 2018 thank you so much

[@j.b.594]

1:00 I'm using an hackintosh

[@DineshPunni]

haha that's an option as well of course ;)

[@JahTubeYT]

Would using a virtual machine tool work as well?

[@RobinPStromberg]

Hi, great tutorials! I have a question: I watched the keynote Unity held at GDC 2019 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoa4pZt6pc56n6M) and it looked like it is possible to edit stuff remotely, cross platform in real time, using AR Foundation. Do I understand this correctly? What I'm really wondering is if it is possible to follow along this tutorial on a PC, build the project and transfer the file to a mac with Xcode, from Xcode bulid the app to an IPhone and after that remotly (wireless) iterate the app from the original project on the PC?

[@DineshPunni]

Hey Robin, yea that's indeed something that Unity plans to do and i'm super excited about it! Can't wait once the feature will be realeased. Once it does, i'll make a video on it for sure!

[@RobinPStromberg]

Looking forward to that. In the meantime, do you know of any way to preview your work in the editor using a webcam with AR-foundation?

[@DineshPunni]

@@RobinPStromberg I know that it's possible with ARKit but as far as I know, there is no feature yet to get a preview. There was something like that announced in project M.A.R.S but I haven't checked it out yet.