GARSession

The most recent frame pair, containing the most recent ARFrame passed into update:error: and the corresponding returned GARFrame.

The delegate for receiving callbacks about the GARSession.

The dispatch queue on which the delegate receives calls.

If nil, callbacks happen on the main thread.

Creates a GARSession with an API key and bundle identifier.

Creates a GARSession.

To authenticate with Google Cloud Services, use setAuthToken:.

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. See GARFuture for information on obtaining results and cancelling the operation.

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 an anchor at the given transform in the world coordinate space, attached to this GARStreetscapeGeometry, and acquires a reference to it.

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.

Asynchronously creates a Rooftop anchor at the specified horizontal position and altitude relative to the horizontal position's rooftop.

See the Rooftop anchors developer guide for more information.

The specified altitudeAboveRooftop is interpreted to be relative to the top of a building at the given horizontal location, rather than relative to the WGS84 ellipsoid. If there is no building at the given location, then the altitude is interpreted to be relative to the terrain instead. Specifying an altitude of 0 will position the anchor directly on the rooftop whereas specifying a positive altitude will position the anchor above the rooftop, against the direction of gravity.

This launches an asynchronous operation used to query the Google Cloud ARCore API. See GARFuture for information on obtaining results and cancelling the operation.

You may resolve multiple anchors at a time, but a session cannot be tracking more than 100 Rooftop or Terrain anchors at time. Attempting to resolve more than 100 Rooftop or Terrain anchors will result in GARSessionErrorCodeResourceExhausted.

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 GARTrackingStateTracking. 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.

Asynchronously creates a Terrain anchor at a specified horizontal position and altitude relative to the horizontal position's terrain.

See the Terrain anchors developer guide for more information.

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 whereas specifying a positive altitudeAboveTerrain will position the anchor above the terrain, against the direction of gravity.

This launches an asynchronous operation used to query the Google Cloud ARCore API. See GARFuture for information on obtaining results and cancelling the operation.

You may resolve multiple anchors at a time, but a session cannot be tracking more than 100 Rooftop or Terrain anchors at time. Attempting to resolve more than 100 Rooftop or Terrain anchors will result in GARSessionErrorCodeResourceExhausted.

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 GARTrackingStateTracking. 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 GARTrackingStateTracking. 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.

Estimates the quality of the visual features seen by ARCore in the preceding few seconds and visible from the provided camera transform.

Cloud Anchors hosted using higher quality features will generally result in easier and more accurately resolved Cloud Anchor transforms.

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

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

Uses the transform and other data from anchor to host a new Cloud Anchor.

A Cloud Anchor is assigned an identifier that can be used to create an GARAnchor in the same position in subsequent sessions across devices using resolveCloudAnchorWithIdentifier:completionHandler:error: (GARSession(CloudAnchors)). See the Cloud Anchors developer guide for more information.

The duration that a Cloud Anchor can be resolved for is specified by TTLDays. When using Token authorization, the maximum allowed value is 365 days. When using an API Key to authenticate with the ARCore API, the maximum allowed value is 1 day.

This launches an asynchronous operation used to query the Google Cloud ARCore API. See GARFuture for information on obtaining results and cancelling the operation.

Cloud Anchors requires a GARSessionConfiguration with GARCloudAnchorModeEnabled set on this session. Use GARSessionConfiguration.cloudAnchorMode to set the Cloud Anchor API mode and setConfiguration:error: to configure the session.

Hosting a Cloud Anchor works best when ARCore is able to create a good feature map around the ARAnchor. Use estimateFeatureMapQualityForHosting:error: (GARSession(CloudAnchors)) to determine the quality of visual features seen by ARCore in the preceding few seconds. Cloud Anchors hosted using higher quality features will generally result in quicker and more accurately resolved Cloud Anchor transforms.

ARCore can have up to 40 simultaneous Cloud Anchor operations, including resolved anchors and active hosting operations.

This will create a new Cloud Anchor with a given lifetime in days, using the transform of the provided anchor.

The cloud state of the returned anchor will be set to GARCloudAnchorStateTaskInProgress and the initial transform will be set to the transform of the provided anchor. However, the returned anchor is completely independent of the original anchor, and the two transforms might diverge over time.

Hosting requires an active session for which the tracking state is ARTrackingStateNormal, as well as a working internet connection. ARCore will continue to retry silently in the background if it is unable to establish a connection to the ARCore API service.

Hosts a new Cloud Anchor based on an ARAnchor.

The new anchor will have a cloud state of GARCloudAnchorStateTaskInProgress and its initial transform will be set to that of the passed-in anchor. However, the two transforms may differ over time.

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.

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

If this returns NO, then using setConfiguration:error: with the given semantic mode will fail with the error code GARSessionErrorCodeConfigurationNotSupported. A device may be incompatible with a given mode due to insufficient sensor capabilities or compute performance.

Performs a raycast against Streetscape Geometry loaded by the scene.

The raycast result contains the transform of the hit as well as the GARStreetscapeGeometry that was hit.

Requires both GARSessionConfiguration.streetscapeGeometryMode to be set to GARStreetscapeGeometryModeEnabled and for GARSessionConfiguration.geospatialMode to be set to GARGeospatialModeEnabled.

Removes an anchor from the session.

Attempts to resolve a Cloud Anchor using the provided identifier.

The Cloud Anchor must previously have been hosted by hostCloudAnchor:TTLDays:completionHandler:error: (GARSession(CloudAnchors)) or another Cloud Anchor hosting method within the allotted TTLDays. See the Cloud Anchors developer guide for more information.

This launches an asynchronous operation used to query the Google Cloud ARCore API. See GARFuture for information on obtaining results and cancelling the operation.

When resolving a Cloud Anchor, the ARCore API periodically compares visual features from the scene against the anchor's 3D feature map to pinpoint the user's position and orientation relative to the anchor. When it finds a match, the task completes.

Cloud Anchors requires a GARSessionConfiguration with GARCloudAnchorModeEnabled set on this session. Use GARSessionConfiguration.cloudAnchorMode to set the Cloud Anchor API mode and setConfiguration:error: to configure the session.

ARCore can have up to 40 simultaneous Cloud Anchor operations, including resolved anchors and active hosting operations.

Resolves a Cloud Anchor with a given identifier.

The new anchor is immediately added to the session and returned, but without a valid transform. You don’t need to wait for a call to resolve a Cloud Anchor to complete before initiating another call. A session can be resolving up to 40 Cloud Anchors at a given time. If resolving fails, the anchor will be automatically removed from the session.

Provide an auth token to use when authenticating with Google Cloud Services.

If the session was created with an API Key, the token will be ignored and an error will be logged. Otherwise, the most recent valid auth token passed in will be used. Call this method each time you refresh your token.

Sets the configuration for the session.

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.

Updates the GARSession with an ARFrame.

Call this method with every ARFrame to keep the sessions synced. Can be called on any thread. Normally, this should be called from your ARSessionDelegate's session:didUpdateFrame: method.