[nxcho]

Unreal Engine and Unity is going to have ARKit support. If your ambition is to make an AR app for both iOS and Android I suspect that one of those engines are better.

I don't believe giving ARKit to away makes sense for Apple at all. It is, from what I can see, a pretty advanced technology and widespread adoption of it on other platforms will not help them selling more iPhones.

[threeseed]

Of course it makes sense and of course it will help sell phones.

This only works on iPhones/iPads with the A9 or A10 chip. Which means that if you want to use AR then you need to upgrade from your iPhone 6. It also will create a suite of AR apps which only run on iOS.

[MBCook]

From what I looked up based on the processors it would be the 6S, the 7, the new one this fall, all iPad pros, and the 2017 iPad.

[threeseed]

It says on the page ARKit only runs on A9/A10:

https://developer.apple.com/arkit/

[MBCook]

Oops, you're right, not the iPhone 6. I've edited the comment to fix it.

[ClassyJacket]

I see no reason it wouldn't work on the SE too, as it uses the same camera and SoC as the iPhone 6S.

[MBCook]

Dang, missed another one. Good catch.