A GPS receiver lets your smartphone know where it is. Accelerometers can detect motion. And for that brief period when smartphones were toying with autostereoscopic displays, they even had cameras capable of taking 3D shots. But despite all these technologies, phones have lacked a comprehensive understanding of their surroundings: what does the room they’re in look like? What’s their location within the larger building? Google is hard at work to enable phones to become better at mapping the world around them, and ...
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