Building the Real-World Browser

Introducing a series of blog posts about the steps towards, and the challenges of creating a Real-World Browser

“Where Life Happens”: at Wemap our vision was from day one that digital tools could empower us to better understand the world around us. This is why, while growing our digital maps platform with our customers, we invested a lot of time and energy in augmented reality. Before glasses become mainstream using a phone to capture what’s in front of us is the most natural evolution for interfaces to explore and navigate the world.

Our customers and their audiences need maps both on the web or in mobile applications: thus our ambition is to create an unparalleled world-exploration experience, working on any environment and on any device, a true Real-World Browser.

We embarked on this journey with our users, our customers, our partners. Augmented reality’s implications are so profound, its challenges so numerous that we want to make it an open journey, first of all by sharing our learnings along the way.

We are starting a series of blog posts about the challenges of building a Real World Browser, at the technical level of course, but also in terms of human-computer interface, data, etc. We will talk about mobile sensors, maps, machine learning and data, mobile and web development, orientation, positioning systems, buildings, cities, design and information. And much more 😊

In his first post Thibaud, our lead researcher for geo-AR, will outline one of the technical challenges we faced: how to build an algorithm to determine precisely your mobile orientation yet efficient enough to work from your browser.

First post: key concepts of geo AR + positioning in the browser

Second post: is AR ready to be useful?

Enjoy! You want to be part of the journey? Reach out to team@getwemap.com