Comment by KaiserPro

> will have widespread applications

There are a lots of "coulds" "ifs" and "shoulds". But how do you tokenise all those extra bits? For it to function as a decent location system, it has to be "invariant" to weather/light conditions. Otherwise you'll just fall back to GPS.

At it's heart, its a photo -> camera pose (location) converter. The bigger issue is how do you stop it hallucinating the wrong location when it has high uncertainty. That's before you get into scaling issues so that a model can cope with bigger than room scale pointclouds.

the first "public" VPS was released a while ago, yet six years later we still don't see widespread adoption of visual based location, even though its much much more accurate in an urban environment.