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Re:Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking? by pacifiedcitizen on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:44AM (#20684395)
If you don't mind wearing a Hololens all day, it orients itself by turning your entire surroundings into ~1m mesh blocks that serve as its internal map. As a bonus, you can retrieve the current mesh from the device's internal web server in order to visualize against it.

Cons: Wearing Hololens all day, spending thousands on a hobby project. :-/ Fascinating if you manage to borrow one though.

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Re:Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking? by pietroglyph on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:09PM (#20698277)
A smaller and less expensive V-SLAM option would be the Intel RealSense T265 camera.

Tracking accuracy can sometimes drift quite a bit with this if you’re not careful, but it can perform pretty well, especially if loop closing is enabled.

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Re:Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking? by erklik on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:12PM (#20691868)
> Fascinating if you manage to borrow one though

Even more fascinating, if they manage to wear it the whole day.

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