Ultra-Precise Location Tech, Augmented Reality Are Transforming the Images We See
While GPS technology revolutionized how people navigate the world, its successor - ultra-precise location technology - will enable them to create a 3D-image of a single location, opening the door for new business possibilities, including painting a town red through augmented reality.
One such company, Humatics, has developed some of the most competitive examples of the technology by combining its own proprietary hardware and software with data analytics, which the firm uses to create indoor 3D replications of a given environment.
“Where GPS places us within the natural world, micro-location places us within the built environment,” the company explains on its website. “Unlike GPS, it works in cities, indoors, and underground. Rather than depending on a single, global coordinate frame, micro-location creates a multitude of small, local but highly precise coordinate frames, tied together by software and networks.”
Another start-up, Scape Technologies, combines GPS technology with multiple camera images to pinpoint a specific location and map it in 3D in less than 5 seconds.
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