I'm trying to play around with Apple's new ARKit and have downloaded their sample ARKitExample project into Xcode 9 (beta).
Since ARKit doesn't work in the Apple simulator, I'm trying to archive, export and install this ARKitExample app onto my iPhone 7+ so I can actually take ARKit for a test spin as an actual user.
However from that example project's own README:
"ARKit and this sample app require iOS 11 and a device with an A9 (or later) processor. (ARKit is not available in iOS Simulator.)"
Looking at the specs for iPhone 7+, it looks like I cannot upgrade my phone to iOS 11, which makes me think that I cannot deploy and run this ARKitExample app on my phone.
However I see lots of confusing articles about which devices currently support ARKit, like this one, which seems to indicate that my phone does support it.
So I ask: do I need to figure out how to upgrade my iPhone 7+ to iOS11, or will everything work fine as-is, or do I need to find some other device that does run iOS 11? If that last scenario is the case: what devices currently run iOS 11?! I don't think it's even been released yet as it still stands in preview mode...
List of iPhone and iPad Compatible with ARKit in iOS 11: