Niantic is Bringing Its Large-scale AR Positioning System to WebAR Too
This week Niantic announced Lightship VPS, a system designed to make possible accurate localization of AR devices at a large scale to enable location-based AR content that can also be persistent and multi-user. While the first implementation of the system will need to be baked into individual apps, the company says it’s bringing the tech […]

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Niantic Launches City-scale Visual Positioning System for Location-based, Multi-user AR
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 reference even on massive scales. Update (May 24th, 2022): Today during the company’s Lightship Summit event, Niantic launched its Lightship […]

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