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 ...

There's an uncomfortable relationship between Niantic and firms developing visual positioning systems for military customers.

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 ...

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 ...

Overview of the proposed method. While previous methods operate drones according to predefined flight routes, the proposed method integrates VPS and natural feature-based tracking to estimate the ...

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 ...