How to install ARKit into UE4

Hi, I am new in unreal engine and i would like to install the ARKit plugin into UE4.( I do have the Github acc and i ald download the plugin. But I was confused about the steps about the installation. At here i like to ask if there is any simple step by step tutorial for me to fully install the plugin? ( Sorry that I’m a slow learner here.)

Thank you in advance.

Hi rachelngjy,

I’m also trying to get the ARKIT up and running but on the side of Unreal I didn’t find any (official) documentation. Very strange. As far as I understood, what you need to do is the following:

  1. In order to deploy to apple devices, you will need to do some additional steps. It’s not as easy as Android. Here’s the info: iOS Game Development | Unreal Engine Documentation

  2. Install version 4.17 of the engine (atm this is in preview mode). This includes the ARKIT support and, as far as I know, doesn’t need any additional plugins etc. to use ARKIT.

  3. You also need to have an AR kit compatible Apple device. Please note that only processors of type A9 and A10 are supported for ARKit. You’ll find a compatibility list somewhere on the internet. If you have such a device, you need to update it to IOS 11 (currently beta 3 is available but you could also use the public version, beta 2, if I recall correctly).

  4. I don’t know if it’s possible to use a windows PC to get ARkit up and running at this moment. On the mac, they suggest you download the beta3 version of Xcode. Not sure if you can design your environment and then deploy directly from Unreal without the need of Xcode. I hope so but doubt it.

  5. Apple documentation and sample set on how to use the AR kit with xcode can be found here: Augmented Reality - Apple Developer

  6. Once you have your Unreal environment in place, I expect you should be able to launch your object/environment to your ARKIT compatible device using the Launch feature in Unreal Engine while your iphone/ipad is connected.

That’s the info I have so far. Hope this helps you out a little bit. I still have no clue how the integration with Unreal will work out and I’m a little bit disappointed that Unreal doesn’t give you any info on how to use it.

Did you have any luck installing? Please let me know, I am desperately looking for a solution since I have not found any

Hi superfunkstar,
thank you for your comment about the installation problem, will try my best to make it. Thank you so much.