Enabling interaction between mixed reality and robots via cloud-based localization
You are here. We see some representation of this every day—a red pin, a pulsating blue dot, a small graphic of an airplane. Without a point of reference on which to anchor it, though, here doesn’t help us make our next move or coordinate with others. But in the context of an office building, street, or U.S. map, “here” becomes a location that we can understand in relation to other points. We’re near the lobby; at the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; above Montana. A map and an awareness of where we are in it is important to knowing where here is and what we have to do to get there.
The answer to “Where am I?” is important