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TechCrunch Minute: The company behind Pokémon GO wants to build a 3D map of the world
Niantic wants to build a richer 3D map of the world, and it’ll use its 2021 acquisition of Scaniverse to do that.
Lockheed Martin is acquiring satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital, taking the smaller company private and potentially rescuing it from running out of cash while facing serious… Niantic has had functionality like this for a long time, which is how it’s built out its massive visual positioning system (VPS), which pinpoints a user’s location to a real world map with augmented reality experiences. As Niantic VP of Engineering Brian McClendon told TechCrunch, Scaniverse is now using a technique called Gaussian splatting, which captures more data points about an object to yield a more accurate, richer, and faster rendering.
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