Hello @MultiMediaMarkers,

From our SDK 8.3 (coming soon!) release notes:

"Additional methods have been added to the Vuforia::Illumination class in native and Unity APIs that will return colorCorrection and intensityCorrection values. These values will be seen to change when using ARCore, on other platforms default values will be returned."

Thanks,

Vuforia Engine Support

Any update on light estimation on Android? (Within Unity)

any update for light estimation support on android devices?

Any updates on this I see 7.2.23 has some progress on ARCORE

Would be great if there’s a tutorial showing how to connect these parameters up to a shader or post process and have it work cross platform on all fusion_providers

thanks

tom 

Thanks for the feedback lhooson, I'll bring this up with the team in charge of the documentation and see what we can do.

Thanks,

Vuforia Support

Thanks, So ARKit only devices(iPad pro and iPad 2017), might I suggest a column on your ground plane compatible devices webpage saying which are working with light estimation as this is not mentioned anywhere and then when it comes to ARcore devices having it implemented then developers will know which are working and which are not. 

Thanks. 

lhooson wrote:

I've had a go at this on a Samsung S8 (Unity 2017.3.0p3 + Vuforia 7.0.43), cannot get it to work though.  

Any advise why this is not working? 

This is the code:

 

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Vuforia;

public class IlluminationEstimation : MonoBehaviour {


    public Light m_LightToEffect;
    private IlluminationManager m_IlluminationManager;

    private float? m_Temperature;
    private float? m_AmbientIntensity;

    private void Start()
    {
        m_IlluminationManager = new IlluminationManager();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (m_IlluminationManager == null)
            return;

        if(m_LightToEffect != null)
        {
            m_AmbientIntensity = m_IlluminationManager.AmbientIntensity;
            if(m_AmbientIntensity != null)
            {
                m_LightToEffect.intensity = (float)m_AmbientIntensity;
            }

            m_Temperature = m_IlluminationManager.AmbientColorTemperature;
            if (m_Temperature != null)
            {
                m_LightToEffect.colorTemperature = (float)m_Temperature;
            }
        }
    }
}

 

Light estimation is currently ARKit devices only.

Apologies for the inconvenience,

Vuforia Support

dereklam0528 wrote:

Is there an example to show how they can be used also how to set this up in Unity project?

 

thanks.

Not currently in Unity. The native sample for iOS does however.

Thanks,

Vuforia Support

I've had a go at this on a Samsung S8 (Unity 2017.3.0p3 + Vuforia 7.0.43), cannot get it to work though.  

Any advise why this is not working? 

This is the code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Vuforia;

public class IlluminationEstimation : MonoBehaviour {


    public Light m_LightToEffect;
    private IlluminationManager m_IlluminationManager;

    private float? m_Temperature;
    private float? m_AmbientIntensity;

    private void Start()
    {
        m_IlluminationManager = new IlluminationManager();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (m_IlluminationManager == null)
            return;

        if(m_LightToEffect != null)
        {
            m_AmbientIntensity = m_IlluminationManager.AmbientIntensity;
            if(m_AmbientIntensity != null)
            {
                m_LightToEffect.intensity = (float)m_AmbientIntensity;
            }

            m_Temperature = m_IlluminationManager.AmbientColorTemperature;
            if (m_Temperature != null)
            {
                m_LightToEffect.colorTemperature = (float)m_Temperature;
            }
        }
    }
}

Is there an example to show how they can be used also how to set this up in Unity project?

thanks.

Here are the native APIs: https://library.vuforia.com/content/vuforia-library/en/reference/cpp/classVuforia_1_1Illumination.html#a98e0b0ecf04a3b96a1b2241961a4f130

Thanks,

Vuforia Support

Hi Strasza, 

Would you please kindly tell us how to enable ARKit lighting estimation in native iOS SDK? 

Regards,

Yi JIANG

Hello all,

Unity has light estimation as well. You can view the APIs for it here: https://library.vuforia.com/content/vuforia-library/en/reference/unity/classVuforia_1_1IlluminationManager.html#aaee41bf33e97294dd70bb67472b3bb79

Thanks,

Vuforia Support

I would also like to know the answer

areavisuale wrote:

Will be available in Unity?

I am also using Unity too. I would like to know as well.

Will be available in Unity?

Hello Derek,

Light estimation with ARKit is available in the 7.0.43 version of the native iOS SDK available on our downloads page.

Thanks,

Vuforia Support