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 VPS system which is designed to allow developers to localize the position of AR devices with centimeter precision (in enabled areas). With a shared underst