ARKit
Understand the world around the device: planes, faces, bodies, hands and rooms.
Overview
ARKit combines camera, motion sensors and LiDAR to track the device and understand its surroundings: horizontal and vertical planes, images, objects, faces, people and the shape of a room.
On Apple Vision Pro, ARKit provides data providers for world tracking, hand tracking, scene reconstruction and more, which you combine with RealityKit.
World tracking
Know where the device is and what's around it.
Scene understanding
Planes, meshes and objects in the room.
Faces and bodies
Track expressions, poses and motion.
Vision Pro
Hand tracking and scene reconstruction for spatial apps.
History
How it grew up.
Introduced
Augmented reality arrives in iOS 11.
ARKit 2
Shared experiences and persistent worlds.
ARKit 3
People occlusion, motion capture and collaborative sessions.
LiDAR
A depth API for the new LiDAR Scanner.
visionOS
ARKit powers spatial computing on Vision Pro.