Will ARCore support the Tango 3D Reconstruction Library

[SF85]

Tango has a great reconstruction library. Is the point cloud retrieved by ARCore dense enough to support it? Will there be an official integration into ARCore? If not, do you have plans for something similiar or will there "only" be planes?

[nathanmartz]

This is an area of active research, so no specific plans to announce now, though we appreciate you highlighting the desire for it. The specific Tango 3D reconstruction algorithms relied on the dense data from the depth sensor, and our teams are looking at alternatives that don't have that dependency.

[stetro]

If the pointcloud is not dense enough for TSDF reconstruction. Maybe something like a plane based reconstruction with RANSAC on pointcloud clusters is possible. Did something similar on tango pointcloud data: https://github.com/stetro/project-tango-poc#plane-based-reconstruction-construct

[MatthewGitter]

I'm a Tango developer and continuing to use 3DR in ARCore is a top priority for me.

[lvonasek]

3D scanning is for me the main usage of Tango. I dont see reason to switch to ARcore as long as it is not supporting scanning.

[lvonasek]

@inio can you reopen this? Or shall I create new feature request?

[inio]

@lvonasek Please open a new feature request, phrased as such.