Chapter 5 Explicit cast can fail

📚 Official Books ARKit by Tutorials
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In the function updateARPlaneNode()

The line:
let planeGeometry = planeNode.geometry as! SCNPlane

appears to fail consistently after a few seconds of execution

Changing it to
guard let planeGeometry = planeNode.geometry as? SCNPlane else { return }

is perhaps safer?

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@mratliff Does the second version work better in this case?

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It doesn’t seem to fail anymore and I can’t see any downside to the approach, but I have not worked on into later chapters as of yet.