Will ARKit support using iBeacons?

Will ARKit support using iBeacons for position tracking and/or display custom data based on location?

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If I follow your question properly I would guess yes, the iOS device will still ahve the BT informaiton that you can use in conjunction with ARKIt - (the same way you can use say "push notifications" with ARKit...

I think the question is whether there will be out-of-the-box multisensor fusion between the different tracking modalities employed by ARKit (high-precision visual-inertial odometry) and iBeacons (low-precision RSSI). The answer to that is: highly unlikely.

Thomas, is it possible to turn an iPhone into an iBeacon so that it can be used as a reference point in AR or would you recommend another approach?

If this is is something you need the best option is to submit a feature request with specific details of your use case. bugreporter.apple.com