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Regardless of the funding, I think if this tech is true it's pretty neat. It's kind of like Shazam for Geolocation: "A few feats of engineering brilliance hid
by willwagner 16y ago
Regardless of the funding, I think if this tech is true it's pretty neat. It's kind of like Shazam for Geolocation:
"A few feats of engineering brilliance hide under Color's slick surface. How does the app determine who's in the same room with you? Not with GPS, which is flummoxed by floors because it can't distinguish vertical distances between people. So Nguyen's team taught Color to use a phone's lighting and audio sensors, stitching their signals together with the sound and light environments of nearby devices to determine which user is where--it's almost like a bat's senses."
- jgh 16y agoUsing sonar in apps is nothing new...I suppose they probably just make a rough map of the area you're in and note the lighting properties and whatnot...ultimately you have probably spent some time outside or on wifi so they know approximately where you are and can narrow it down based on observations from other users.