ARCore in Fairphone 4?

Hi,

I have a 4 and it does not support ARCore. Ingress scan portal depends on that and it is not activated when playing it ons FP4

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Thanks for trying @Paperpilot and @Wolter_van_den_Brink ! Good to know for certain now… my spirit can move on in peace :stuck_out_tongue:

Does anybody know whether there has been movement on it?

It’s the one thing that makes me regret getting this phone so far, in a really big way. Because due to developing apps, I’ll now need to get another phone, which just ruins the whole “create less e-waste” proposition.

My bad for not checking of course, but I really didn’t think I could buy a phone costing >500€ in 2021 that does not support AR core, as it has become so ubiquituous. :frowning: I really hope they re-consider this and get a certification for it ASAP.

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I think the best course of action is to #contactsupport. The more people write to them about it, the more likely it is to happen.

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I don’t think it’s necessary to obscure email addresses on this forum. Discourse (the forum software) hides email addresses from the source. That’s why on the about page their email address is as well. I also host a Discourse forum, I never get spam on the email address that’s in the about section.

But let’s check if the comment section is just as well protected. test@example.com should not appear in the source (let me check…)

Edit: email addresses in threads are not protected :frowning:

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+1 for ARCore also from my side! I think it’s something really usefull and one of the only real negatives of having a fairphone. i hope they solve this very soon!

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Does this topic have an update? Need this tech so much!!

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Yes, it is a huge shame that the Fairphone 4 is not certified for ARCore. Makes it impossible to recommend the Fairphone to XR/AR/VR developers.

What exactly are the reasons why Fairphone are unable to support device certification, when nearly all leading phone manufacturers do? Is there a specific technical challenge?

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I would assume it has to do with the plethora of issues in how the camera isn’t accessible through the official APIs.

Still, yeah, this has me essentially looking into getting rid of my Fairphone and buying another one, more or less exactly what this phone should not be about. But I need ARcore on at least one phone I own - and I have no use for owning two phones.

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I guess the people in this forum, who are only users of Fairphone, will never be able to answer those questions.
Maybe unless they contactsupport, get an answer and care to share the response here.

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Has anyone tried this guide?

I really want to get a FairPhone as I love what it stands for, but without AR support (dev here), I can’t justify such a purchase.

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Hello!
Just tried the guide. It crashes when I launch HelloAR…

Linked is the adb logcat if you want to investigate :slight_smile:

Short extract:

11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : Build fingerprint: 'Fairphone/FP4eea/FP4:12/SKQ1.220201.001/SP1N:user/release-keys'
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : Revision: '0'
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : ABI: 'arm'
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : Timestamp: 2022-11-15 16:55:23.311223752+0100
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : Process uptime: 0s
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : Cmdline: com.paramsen.helloar
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : pid: 4494, tid: 4533, name: UnityMain  >>> com.paramsen.helloar <<<
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : uid: 10008
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : signal 6 (SIGABRT), code -1 (SI_QUEUE), fault addr --------
11-15 16:55:23.615  4708  4708 F DEBUG   : Abort message: 'jni_helper.cc:19 'vm' Must be non NULL'

EDIT: I’m running Fairphone OS but with almost all the google stuff disabled. Don’t know if there is a dependency I’m missing :thinking:

EDIT2: Seems the same error they have with a.o. Samsung S8.

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Thank you so much for testing this. Shame about the results. Fingers crossed for the FairPhone 4+/5

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what a crap. February 2023, we are not further with this topic? no chance to get AR? :frowning:

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this niche topic will be at the bottom of the developer’s priority list. there are currently and again and again completely different problems that need to be tackled.

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I bought the Nreal Air glasses, they need the phone to have usbC 3.0 with display port, but also other features in the processor to fully work. I wonder if anyone have already tried this setup and can share the experience. did it worked? just de screen casting or the AR experience as well?

Moved your post here (please read above) as AR will not work at all and I guess with this the glasses are kind of useless…

And welcome to the community

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Finally an answer… I didn’t even thought about ARcore. Thank you!
I would love to move to fairphone but in this case it wouldn’t make sense. I’ll wait for the next version hopefully with the increase of AR products this year, they understand that both DP and ARcore will have to become standards. And because both are not new technologies I believe the licenses wouldn’t increase a lot the final product let’s wait and see.