GARSession(Geospatial)

Gets the availability of the Visual Positioning System (VPS) at a specified horizontal position.

The availability of VPS in a given location helps to improve the quality of Geospatial localization and tracking accuracy.

This launches an asynchronous operation used to query the Google Cloud ARCore API. This function returns a GARVPSAvailabilityFuture which can be used to obtain the task's result. Its initial GARFutureState will be set to GARFutureStatePending. When the operation is completed, its GARFutureState will be set to GARFutureStateDone, and GARVPSAvailabilityFuture.state can be used to obtain the operation's result.

You may provide an optional completionHandler, which will be invoked when the operation is completed, unless the GARVPSAvailabilityFuture has been cancelled. The callback will be called on the Main thread.

Your app must be properly set up to communicate with the Google Cloud ARCore API in order to obtain a result from this call. See Check VPS Availability for more details on setup steps and usage examples.

Creates a Geospatial anchor at the specified geodetic location and orientation relative to the Earth.

Latitude and longitude are defined by the WGS84 specification, and altitude values are defined as the elevation above the WGS84 ellipsoid in meters.

The rotation provided by eastUpSouthQAnchor is a rotation with respect to an east-up-south coordinate frame. An identity rotation will have the anchor oriented such that X+ points to the east, Y+ points up away from the center of the earth, and Z+ points to the south.

An anchor's GARAnchor.trackingState will be GARTrackingStatePaused while GAREarth is GARTrackingStatePaused. The tracking state will permanently become GARTrackingStateStopped if the GARSession configuration is set to GARGeospatialModeDisabled.

Creating anchors near the north pole or south pole is not supported. If the latitude is within 0.1° of the north pole or south pole (90° or -90 °), this function will output GARSessionErrorCodeInvalidArgument and the anchor will fail to be created.

Creates a Terrain anchor at the specified geodetic location, altitude relative to the horizontal position’s terrain and orientation relative to the Earth.

Terrain means the ground, or ground floor inside a building with VPS coverage.

The specified altitudeAboveTerrain is interpreted to be relative to the Earth's terrain (or floor) at the specified latitude/longitude geodetic coordinates, rather than relative to the WGS-84 ellipsoid. Specifying an altitudeAboveTerrain of 0 will position the anchor directly on the terrain (or floor) whereas specifying a positive altitudeAboveTerrain will position the anchor above the terrain (or floor), against the direction of gravity.

This function schedules a task to resolve the anchor's pose using the given parameters. You may resolve multiple anchors at a time, but a session cannot be tracking more than 100 Terrain anchors at time. Attempting to resolve more than 100 Terrain anchors will result in GARSessionErrorCodeResourceExhausted.

If this function returns error nil, the terrain anchor's GARAnchor.terrainState will be GARTerrainAnchorStateTaskInProgress, and its tracking state will be GARTrackingStatePaused. This anchor remains in this state until its pose has been successfully resolved. If the resolving task results in an error, the tracking state will be set to GARTrackingStateStopped.

Latitude and longitude are defined by the WGS84 specification, and altitude values are defined as the elevation above the WGS84 ellipsoid in meters.

The rotation provided by eastUpSouthQAnchor is a rotation with respect to an east-up-south coordinate frame. An identity rotation will have the anchor oriented such that X+ points to the east, Y+ points up away from the center of the earth, and Z+ points to the south.

An anchor's GARAnchor.trackingState will be GARTrackingStateTracking while GAREarth is GARTrackingStatePaused. The tracking state will permanently become GARTrackingStateStopped if the GARSession configuration is set to GARGeospatialModeDisabled.

Creating anchors near the north pole or south pole is not supported. If the latitude is within 0.1° of the north pole or south pole (90° or -90°), this function will output GARSessionErrorCodeInvalidArgument and the anchor will fail to be created.

Converts the provided transform to a GARGeospatialTransform with respect to the Earth.

Its heading will be zero for a GARGeospatialTransform returned from this method.

Determines whether the given geospatial mode is supported on the current device and OS version.

If this returns NO, then configuring the session with the given geospatial mode will fail with the error code GARSessionErrorCodeConfigurationNotSupported. A device may be incompatible with a given mode due to insufficient sensor capabilities.

Converts the provided Earth specified horizontal position, altitude and rotation with respect to an east-up-south coordinate frame to a local transform in world coordinate space.