Matt Miesnieks
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Hi Olivier

I don’t think what you want to do is doable with ARKit today as you don’t get depth across the entire scene, you only get a ground plane. Future versions of ARKit (or Tango etc with a depth camera) can determine the depth of the scene and remove the background etc, but they aren’t available today. You could probably use the depth map from portrait mode (not sure that is published via the API) and soon there will be CNN based systems that can determine crude depth from the mono image.

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