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Here come the machines..

Can Robots read maps ?

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About me...

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Technologist

Optimist !

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Google’s Geographer in Residence

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Geography

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"everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."

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Waldo R. Tobler, 1970

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Mobile first..

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Never Lost !

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Avoid the traffic..

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Know the special..

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Get me home !

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Geography is everywhere !

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Meta trends..

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Urban, not Suburban

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Digital natives

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Big data !

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Platforms

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Artificial Intelligence

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Horseless carriage

thinking..

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The where of everything...

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Egocentric Scale

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80% �Indoors

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Simultaneous Localization And Mapping

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Wayfinding beacons

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Here come the machines !

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Tensor Processing Unit

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Digital Surface Modeling

3-D Modeling

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Aerial Imagery

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Sun location

Roof Angle

Shadows

Light Intensity

Every Roof

Every Hour

Every Pixel

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33%�Improved location

90%�Brazil Addresses

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Not again… AR/VR?

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Virtual Reality

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Mixed Reality

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Augmented Reality

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The DoF�Problem ?

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  • Inner Ear senses 3DoF
  • Roll, Pitch Yaw
  • First Generation AR/VR Goggles

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  • Inner Ear & Eyes senses 6DoF
  • Roll, Pitch Yaw + Translation
  • Back/Forward, Up/Down, Left Right
  • AR/VR Goggles with Feature Recognition

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Final thoughts..

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Thank you !

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