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L. Englestone.NET Developer's Guide to Augmented Reality in iOS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6770-7_9

9. Plane Detection

Lee Englestone1  
(1)
Offerton, UK
 

The ability to detect surfaces such as floors, walls, and surfaces is important as these dictate the limits of our scenes environment as well as enabling us to place things upon them.

The commercial applications of this AR feature are interesting. It is already used by some businesses to detect walls and place products such as wallpaper or pictures on them to allow customers to preview items in their homes before buying them.

Detecting Planes

It is possible to set plane detection to just detect horizontal, vertical, or both horizontal and vertical planes.

During plane detection, ...

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