What is a Visual Positioning System?
                     What is a Visual Positioning System?
What is VPS?
Visual Positioning System (VPS) is the newly developed 
feature for the Google Maps. VPS will use the camera of 
the user’s smartphone to identify their surroundings, 
and thereby visually display a blown-up 3D direction 
such as lit-up arrows and precise steps, in the screen of 
the smart phones.
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How Visual Positioning 
System Works?
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.
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Mapping
1. Map updates.
2. Sharing of maps.
3. Overlay the map manually or based on computer 
knowledge with or without a floor plan
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How to use VPS 
for Business?
With independent companies such as Ubiquity6 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.
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Benefits of VPS in 
Business
1. VPS is far more accurate than the global positioning 
system
2. Great user experience.
3. VPS application program interference (API) to determine 
the exact location.
4. It also provides you with the advantages of local 
marketing.
5. 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.
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How VPS Can 
Augment the World?
To provide a stable overlay for physical reality, 
Augmented Reality (AR) has to be rooted in place. GPS 
placement is often used to connect an entity to a 
Pokémon or anything to a specific location.
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Computer vision
Computer vision is then used to recognize a house or 
other external object through the eye of the mobile 
device of a user. 
The application will light up the object and spot the user 
automatically, whatever direction it appears.
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Visual Positioning 
System App
The company Aparna Chennapragada highlighting a 
Visual Positioning System to overcome the problem the 
navigation problems. This is a way of preventing people 
from losing themselves. 
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Current 
Challenges of VPS
Measuring position has been a dramatic success for 
outdoor navigation system, and there is a strong push to 
repeat that indoors. Being able to locate a person inside 
a building can help in many different ways. 
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Augmented 
Robotics
Autonomous Robots from drones to dogs to cars, could 
access VPS services via and SDK doing so would 
dramatically improve their ability to navigate overusing 
GPS alone.
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