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Is there a difference in the core technology underneath ARCore and ARKit? Just generally curious.

moron4hire 9y ago
I haven't looked closely into either, but in generaly, they're both going to be doing some form of SLAM (Simultaneous Location And Mapping), but the particulars of the algorithms will be proprietary to each vendor. That said, that should largely be an implementation detail. The positioning data provided through their respective APIs will likely be nearly identical.
bangonkeyboard 9y ago
ARCore is based on Tango which was derived from Flyby which was acquired by Apple and turned into ARKit.
- bhouston 9y ago
  I thought ARKit was derived from metaio's technology? https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/apple-metaio/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/apple-metaio/
  - bangonkeyboard 9y ago
    Informed conjecture from https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-than-the-alternatives-af8871889d6a https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-t...: Ogmento was founded by my Super Ventures partner Ori Inbar. Ogmento became FlyBy and the team there successfully built a VIO system on IOS leveraging an add-on fish eye camera. This code-base was licenced to Google which became the VIO system for Tango. Apple later bought FlyBy and the same codebase is the core of ARKit VIO. ... I don’t have any hard insider confirmation on this, but I think the Metaio codebase would have helped with the plane detection and probably helped with the mapping/relocalization pieces of the visual tracker. FlyBy had by far the best Inertial tracker on the market, and it’s this piece that makes ARKit magic (instant stereo convergence & metric scale in particular).
dmitriid 9y ago
Not really. A great write-up here: https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-than-the-alternatives-af8871889d6a https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-t...
- MBCook 9y ago
  I remember reading that, it was a great post, but it predates this announcement. So it only compared to the tango hardware which doesn't have very many users compared to something in iOS 11. I'd love to see an updated one that compared the two directly.

I haven't looked closely into either, but in generaly, they're both going to be doing some form of SLAM (Simultaneous Location And Mapping), but the particulars of the algorithms will be proprietary to each vendor. That said, that should largely be an implementation detail. The positioning data provided through their respective APIs will likely be nearly identical.

bangonkeyboard 9y ago

ARCore is based on Tango which was derived from Flyby which was acquired by Apple and turned into ARKit.

bhouston 9y ago
I thought ARKit was derived from metaio's technology? https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/apple-metaio/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/apple-metaio/
- bangonkeyboard 9y ago
  Informed conjecture from https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-than-the-alternatives-af8871889d6a https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-t...: Ogmento was founded by my Super Ventures partner Ori Inbar. Ogmento became FlyBy and the team there successfully built a VIO system on IOS leveraging an add-on fish eye camera. This code-base was licenced to Google which became the VIO system for Tango. Apple later bought FlyBy and the same codebase is the core of ARKit VIO. ... I don’t have any hard insider confirmation on this, but I think the Metaio codebase would have helped with the plane detection and probably helped with the mapping/relocalization pieces of the visual tracker. FlyBy had by far the best Inertial tracker on the market, and it’s this piece that makes ARKit magic (instant stereo convergence & metric scale in particular).

dmitriid 9y ago

Not really. A great write-up here: https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-than-the-alternatives-af8871889d6a https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-t...

MBCook 9y ago
I remember reading that, it was a great post, but it predates this announcement. So it only compared to the tango hardware which doesn't have very many users compared to something in iOS 11. I'd love to see an updated one that compared the two directly.