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tomthecarrot / arcore-for-all

Google ARCore (dev preview 1) for "unsupported" Android devices
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Support for Android Emulator #35

Closed zharvey-welltok closed 6 years ago

zharvey-welltok commented 6 years ago

According to the Google ARCore Getting Started Guide, under Preparing your device:

"You must use a supported, physical device. ARCore does not support virtual devices such as the Android Emulator..."

I'm wondering if anyone in this community understands why? That is, why does the ARCore SDK not support the Android Emulator? Is it something that can be hacked around, maybe decompiling some code (?), refactoring it, recompiling it, etc.?

I ask because I have neither a Pixel nor an S8 but would love to start tinkering around with the ARCore API. Any ideas here? And apologies if this isn't the right place to turn to for this sort of info, I'm just inferring that this is a repo/project for folks who are interested in hacking at ARCore to make it more open & inclusive, etc.! :-)

Thanks!

pawangiri commented 6 years ago

Hi @zharvey-welltok, the primary reason for ARCore not to work on Emulator is because the it relies on multiple sensors and not just camera. It needs to read the device moment by computing parallax and combining data from accelerometer and gyroscope. Emulators cannot provide that for now, also how do you propose to position the object on the surface ?

zharvey-welltok commented 6 years ago

Makes sense - thanks!

pedrosax commented 6 years ago

Google ARCore now runs in the Android Emulator: https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/java/emulator