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by ice109 3256 days ago
>relative to a nearby iBeacon

where is the iBeacon in the parking lot?

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there is no iBeacon (not sure where you're quoting that from?), its just spatial data (lat/lons) projected into the SCNScene coordinate space (which is relative to the location and heading of the device when the ARSession starts)
>Core Location provides services for determining a device’s geographic location, altitude, orientation, or position relative to a nearby iBeacon.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation

As the quote states, it can (determine the geographic location, altitude, orientation) OR (determine position relative to a nearby iBeacon)
ok yes, an iBeacon is one possible way CoreLocation determines a device's location. in this case there was none, only GPS (and I guess Wifi is used as well)