Does Flutter support virtual or augmented reality?

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I have to make an app that uses virtual reality, so should I drop the idea of using Flutter?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '19 at 13:46

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yes as much as I have seen flutter does support AR,I have been following a flutter developer on twitter he posts some cool AR stuff built with flutter here's a plugin ARCore he has built for flutter.

here are some of sample AR videos from the developer himself

https://twitter.com/i/status/1123893412279791616

https://twitter.com/i/status/1129117305303175168

answered Jul 05 '19 at 13:46

Mahesh Jamdade

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AR Core is SDK is available for both ios and android platforms and support for different development engines like Unity is available. – Pooja Soni Nov 11 '20 at 05:02

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Can I build 3D (OpenGL) apps with Flutter?

Today we don’t support for 3D via OpenGL ES or similar.We have long-term plans to expose an optimized 3D API, but right now we’re focused on 2D.

https://flutter.dev/docs/resources/faq#can-i-build-3d-opengl-apps-with-flutter

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jan 17 '20 at 07:02

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 02 '18 at 12:01

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there aren't any OpenGL bindings supported by flutter. Flutter is only a 2d only application.

https://flutter.io/faq/#can-i-build-3d-opengl-apps-with-flutter

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14591

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/7053

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/179

I am not sure how VR would work at all on flutter.

answered Jun 02 '18 at 12:01

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I am sure that there will be plugins in the future. – creativecreatorormaybenot Jun 16 '18 at 19:38
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OSX just depreciated Opengl. I would assume the only avenue for VR support will be Vulkan – user1462442 Jun 26 '18 at 19:30

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited May 30 '22 at 07:25

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You can use google's ar core with flutter. Check out the arcore_flutter_plugin to work with ar in a flutter. As of now, there aren't any packages that specifically target VR. But you can use ARKIT arkit_flutter_plugin.

NOTE: ARCORE only works with android. And ARKIT only works with iOS.

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answered May 10 '21 at 05:53

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 20 '21 at 11:01

I recently created a Flutter plugin for AR that supports both Android and iOS by wrapping around ARCore and ARKit: https://pub.dev/packages/ar_flutter_plugin

The plugin is a work in progress, but it already supports collaborative AR and sharing content through Google's Cloud Anchor Service and a lot of other useful features

Does Flutter support virtual or augmented reality?

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