[ARCore] ARCore Depth API UE4 support?

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How good does this look!?!

But only for Unity at the moment :frowning: what are the chances of getting this in the next UE4 version?

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I hope soon!
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This is one of those very painful situations where I feel forced to use Untiy for AR since the new versions of ARCore take so long to make it into Unreal Engine. Google stopped updating their own UE fork (itā€™s stuck in 4.20 and ARCore version 1.7!) and the official releases from Epic Games are several versions behind. UE would have a wider AR user base if the SDKs were somehow updated faster. Maybe as a plugin that can be downloaded and updated from the Marketplace?

I checked the dev-vr branch of UE4 and it seems to be updated to ARCore 1.16, which is a big step considering 4.25 has version 1.7. But still, this is already outdated considering 1.18 has all the Depth API functionality that would be amazing to use in UE.

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According to Googleā€™s docs it requires android studio 3.1+ and Api level 24+. Iā€™m using 4.25.3 (release @ git) it it apparently supports Api 28 and Android studio 3.5
Iā€™ve found a node called ā€œGetARCameraDepthā€ and iā€™ve tried to plug that into a material but i canā€™t get it to show anything. And after some tests it seems to return null. Iā€™ve searched in the engine source and it seems to be implemented for ARKit but i canā€™t find the implementation for ARCore.
Does anyone has any idea on how to use this?

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Still nothing for unreal engine?

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It seems to work since 4.26, but on some smartphones where DepthApi is declare to work, I get a solid texture with minimum values.

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Hi all,
currently in 5.3 it doesnā€™t seem to work at all! any idea if it is working?