VPS over GPS @Google

Visual Positioning System (VPS) is a feature in Google Maps that helps to overcome the challenges of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and gives more precise locations. VPS?using a technique called global localization, which combines VPS, Street View, and machine learning to identify position and orientation more accurately and embedded immersive, location-based AR experiences with the?ARCore Geospatial API.

VPS is a technology that enables a smartphone or a drone to determine its location and orientation in the physical world using visual cues. VPS systems use computer vision algorithms to analyze images from a camera or other optical sensor and match them against a database of known locations or features.

The new revolutionary VPS is creating a wave in life style of people all around the world. With this new technology, Google Maps can make use of the user’s phone camera to spot your surroundings and visually converse your direction right in front of your eyes.

Google Maps uses VPS to provide location and navigation services for users of its AR ‘Live View’ feature. This feature uses the camera on a user’s smartphone to provide real-time, AR-enhanced navigation instructions and location information. The VPS system processes the images captured by the smartphone camera to determine the user’s location and orientation and then overlays AR elements, such as virtual signs and arrows, onto the camera view to provide directions and other information.

How does VPS work?

VPS determines a device’s location based on imagery rather than GPS signals. VPS first creates a map by taking a series of images that have a known location and analyzing them for key visual features, such as the outline of buildings or bridges, to create a large-scale and fast searchable index of those visual features. To localize the device, VPS compares the features in imagery from the phone to those in the VPS index. However, the accuracy of localization through VPS is greatly affected by the quality of both the imagery and the location associated with it.

A monitor and IMU are at its heart, the Intermodal Visual positioning system-VPS. Using the data from these devices, the world will be studied and measured and identified. If you replay a mapped location, VPS uses Google’s extensive back-end data and your device’s camera to analyze the surroundings where you are in. The greater accuracy of the features makes it really easy for them to identify where you are.???New onboard sensors can improve tracking with sensing fusion -GPS.

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??Position tracking sensors.

??Identify location with the help of the map.?

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??Overlay the map manually or based on computer knowledge with or without a floor plan.

What is the role of Geospatial API?

The ARCore Geospatial API enables remotely attach content to any area covered by Google Street View and creating AR experiences on a global scale. It uses a device sensor and GPS data to detect the device’s environment then matches the recognizable parts of that environment to a localization model provided by Google’s Visual Positioning System (VPS) to determine the precise location of a user’s device. The API also merges the user’s local coordinates with the geographic coordinates from VPS so that a user can work within a single coordinate system.

What are the advantages?

The new visual system is aimed at offering ample support to fix navigation concerns. Here are a few advantages of Google VPS that make it stand out in this technology-driven era:?

·????????VPS can help you get better business insights and assist clients on foot.

·????????Provides the user with the advantages of local marketing.

·????????It can be made available for all transportation modes. It is an icon in the transportation sector.

·????????Very handy in urban areas where GPS services are often distracted or blocked by skyscrapers.

·????????Usability in indoor and outdoor areas and GPS-denied environments with assured accuracy despite the size of the area.?

·????????VPS can be a great aid to the visually impaired, as the close-up visual assistance can help them navigate.

?Benefits of VPS in Business

·????????Easy to use.

·????????VPS is far more accurate than the global positioning system

·????????Great user experience.

·????????VPS application program interference (API) to determine the exact location.

·????????It also provides you with the advantages of local marketing.

·????????Vision engine creates large-scale 3D maps for ordinary video and images smart camera devices can then query the vision engine through its visual positioning services.

How Visual Positioning Systems Work?for Indoor Navigation

First of all, the button should be tapped to activate the visual view. Following, simply point your device’s camera to the preferred destination to see the relevant information .The surroundings will be displayed with an overlay of Maps data for close by business and there will be arrows pointed in the direction where you have to go. You can also see a small map displayed on the bottom side which acts as a reminder for where you are headed.

GPS retrieves its data from the surrounding buildings and landmarks where you are in rather than completely relying on satellite location that erases the possible flaws with GPS. Google even has plans to put a character on the particular screen to give users a feel of an augmented reality tour guide. In the demo, they tried the navigation experience with a small fox.

How to use VPS for Business?

With independent companies such as Ubiquity in strong competition, Google announced a new ARCore 1.2, Google’s web AR application for cloud anchors. This is a tentative example of completely integrating VPS using images captured locally in contrast to a centralized database. Nonetheless, the quest is still going on to create VPS networks worldwide and to discharge complex cloud image processing activities.