Niantic today launched its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its first developer summit. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the world so that AR devices can share the same frame of ...

The partnership addresses a critical vulnerability in modern operations: GPS unavailability, spoofing, interference, and jamming. When satellite signals are compromised, autonomous systems and field ...

Niantic Inc., the developer of the popular augmented reality game “Pokemon Go” and the Lightship AR platform, today released the Lightship Visual Positioning System for developers, with more than ...

Scape Technologies announced last week that it has raised an $8 million seed investment for a visual positioning system that it says can provide centimeter-accurate location data at city-scale. Such a ...

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Researchers have developed an innovative positioning system that enhances the versatility and accuracy of drone-viewpoint mixed reality (MR) applications by aligning real and virtual world coordinates ...

The visual positioning system mapped hundreds of thousands of landscape features on survey flights over two test routes. Credit: Daedalean Leonardo Helicopters has tested the performance of ...

WASHINGTON — Vantor, an Earth intelligence firm formerly known as Maxar Intelligence, said Dec. 16 it is partnering with Niantic Spatial to develop navigation technology for military platforms ...

In May 2018, during its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a new feature for its Maps mobile app, called the AR Visual Positioning System. It provides navigation via a layer of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University developed a cane with a visual positioning system and ...

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