Niantic filed 1 patent application in the VR & AR category.
The filing covers server technology that combines crowdsourced AR scan data from multiple users to create unified 3D map tiles. This approach enables high-fidelity augmented reality experiences based on real-world environments at global scale.
Niantic's lone VR & AR patent addresses the technical challenge of turning millions of fragmented scans from different users into a coherent spatial map of the real world. The server-side system relies on control points that act as reference anchors, using an objective function with gradient descent to reconcile sensor data captured from different devices operating in different coordinate systems. Rather than maintaining isolated spatial data for each device, the approach fuses overlapping scan maps into unified 3D map tiles. This crowdsourced pipeline allows the world map to improve continuously as more users contribute scans, without requiring Niantic to deploy specialized scanning equipment.
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