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Visual Positioning System – All You Need To Know

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sammy kelvin
Visual Positioning System – All You Need To Know

Have you heard about Google’s new innovative Visual Positioning System that gave a novel look to the present maps navigation technology? This mind blowing update in the navigation world 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.

Are you living in heavily populated urban areas where there are lots of tall buildings? Do you often experience hassles of GPS drift and other similar problems while navigating? Then this new visual system is the right choice for you.

VPS-How It Works?

Leveraging the possibilities of GPS system and camera in the mobile phones and embedding the same with augmented reality Google is giving a new definition for navigation system. Let’s have a look on how it works!

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.   

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  • 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 info.
  • 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.
  • VPS 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.

You can deepdive and learn more about Visual Positioning System here.

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