Face tracking

ARKit provides a series of blend shapes to describe different features of a face. Each blend shape is modulated from 0..1. For example, one blend shape defines how open the mouth is.

Front facing camera

Face tracking requires the use of the front-facing or "selfie" camera. When the front-facing camera is active, other tracking subsystems like plane tracking or image tracking may not be available. If the rear-facing camera is active, face tracking might not be available.

Different iOS devices support different combinations of features. If you Start a subsystem that requires the rear-facing camera, the Apple ARKit package might decide to use the rear-facing camera instead. For more information, see Camera and Tracking Mode Selection.

Technical details

Requirements

Face tracking supports devices with Apple Neural Engine in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and requires a device with a TrueDepth camera on iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 and earlier. See Apple's Tracking and Visualizing Faces documentation for more information.

Contents

Apple ARKit XR Plug-in includes a static library that provides an implementation of the AR Foundation Face tracking feature.

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