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Huge respect to anybody who ships a product, even software. I have yet to use any indoor navigation or even have that offered, but it would be nice. Question is, is SLAM the correct term? I thought mapping meant like the device doesn't have any prior knowledge of the environment and is, well, mapping it. This more feels like sensor fusion with a kalman filter.

The motion tracking system used by ARKit/ARCore is called SLAM, combination of sensors + camera data if available.

Sure, but my point was that just because something uses the same inputs and gets a similar output doesn't mean the processing is the same. This is just localization. Which is still impressive. But I'm not understanding there being any mapping going on.

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