Testing AR with Windows and webcam?

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Hi, there is any way to test AR template on windows with a USB webcam?

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Hi **Hermyth. **No way. Because AR functionality is provided by ARKit or ARCore libs that can run only on iOS or Android devices.

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Thank you.

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There are ways of doing this but they need to be implemented by Epic, the AR SDK developers (Google, Apple) or a third-party plugin developer. In the case of Unity, their ARKit plugin includes a remote that allows you to stream the camera and ARKit data to a desktop computer running the project in the Unity editor. I’ve used this on Mac OS but I believe it’s supposed to work on Windows too. We are now developing using UE4 and it’s been a pain to have to build to the device each time we want to test something. As a workaround I’m detecting if the project is running on PIE and then spawning a virtual room geometry in the scene and using standard ray traces. At least it is good enough for testing interaction logic. I’m sure a solution will come in the near future for UE4.

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Maybe this can be of help:

I did not try it yet but should work as a mock-device

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Very sad that there is still as of this day no way to test AR on desktop platforms.