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 ...

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 simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)-based lidar scanner allows users to accurately digitize environments. With the ability to capture indoor, outdoor and underground environments, this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Niantic Spatial and Vantor are building a comprehensive positioning solution that will enable air and ground platforms to navigate and coordinate precisely in GPS-denied environments. The joint ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Vision Positioning System Market · GlobeNewswire Inc. Dublin, Dec. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Vision Positioning System Market - Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, ...