Visualize planes in reality kit and place texture in tile format - ios

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I'm trying to detect plane with table classification and I want to cover the table with an image. Imagine a chessboard covering the entire table surface.
My approach here is to detect planes (which I can) and use the attached image to get to repeat cover the table.
I tried doing it in both reality kit and SceneKit and reality kit gives the best results in terms of occlusion if there are objects on the table or if the table is near a wall or something.
I was able to achieve it in SceneKit by using the contentsTransform with wrapS and wrapT, having a repeated tile format.
But when I do it in RealityKit, the texture just stretches along the entire plane as more and more of the plane is detected. Can someone point me in the right direction here? I am using a lidar enabled device.
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Thanks in advance for reading my question. I am really new to ARKit and have followed several tutorials which showed me how to use plane detection and using different textures for the planes. The feature is really amazing but here is my question. Would it be possible for the player to place the plane all over the desired area first and then interact with the new ground? For example, could I use the plane detection to detect and put grass texture over an area and then drive a real RC car over it? Just like driving it on real grass.
I have tried out the plane detection on my iPhone 6s while what I found is when I tried to put anything from real world on the top of plane surface it just simply got covered by the plane. Could you please give me some clue if it is possible to make the plane just stay on the ground without covering the real world object?
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Or another way is i think to track the position of the real world object for example with apples turicreate or CoreML or both -> then don't draw your stuff on the affected position.
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Said that I would recommend you using 2D image recognition and "read" every camera frame to detect the object while moving in the camera's view space. Look for the AVCaptureVideoDataOutputSampleBufferDelegate protocol in Apple's developer site
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