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# CameraFrameProvider

An object that provides camera streams.

```
final class CameraFrameProvider
```

## Overview

You use `CameraFrameProvider` to receive camera images for selected video formats.

## Topics

### Creating a camera frame provider

[`init()`](/documentation/ARKit/CameraFrameProvider/init())

Creates a camera frame provider.

### Getting information about the camera frame provider

[`description`](/documentation/ARKit/CameraFrameProvider/description)

A textual representation of this camera frame provider.

[`state`](/documentation/ARKit/CameraFrameProvider/state)

The state of a camera frame provider.

### Getting camera frame updates

[`cameraFrameUpdates(for:)`](/documentation/ARKit/CameraFrameProvider/cameraFrameUpdates(for:))

Gets a sequence of camera frame updates for a given video format.

[`CameraFrameUpdates`](/documentation/ARKit/CameraFrameProvider/CameraFrameUpdates)

A sequence of camera frames.

### Enumerations

[`CameraPosition`](/documentation/ARKit/CameraFrameProvider/CameraPosition)

Values that describe possible camera positions.

[`CameraType`](/documentation/ARKit/CameraFrameProvider/CameraType)

Values that describe possible camera types.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`DataProvider`](/documentation/ARKit/DataProvider)

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