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# extrinsicOrientationQuaternion

Camera’s orientation to a world or scene coordinate system. The orientation value is a unit
quaternion (ix, iy, and iz) instead of the classical 3x3 matrix.

```
var extrinsicOrientationQuaternion: SIMD3<Float>
```

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