CONFIRMADO, Apple adquirio la compañía C3 Technologies, una compañía que se dedica a crear mapas en 3 dimensiones (3D). Esto fue confirmado por 9to5mac.com.
We have now learned Apple is now the owner of C3 Technologies. Sources say that C3 Technologies CEO Mattias Astrom , C3 Technologies CFO Kjell Cederstrand, and lead C3 Technologies Product Manager Ludvig Emgard are now working within Apple’s iOS division. The leading trio, along with most of the former C3 Technologies team, is still working as a team in Sweden (interestingly, the division is now called “Sputnik”), where the C3 Technologies company was located prior to the Apple acquisition.
La tecnología fue clasificada oficialmente y se utiliza para la orientación de misiles. Tecnología Review describe cómo crear mapas que son 360 ° explorable con todos los edificios, árboles, y punto de referencia capturado en 3D.
C3’s models are generated with little human intervention. First, a plane equipped with a custom-designed package of professional-grade digital single-lens reflex cameras takes aerial photos. Four cameras look out along the main compass points, at oblique angles to the ground, to image buildings from the side as well as above. Additional cameras (the exact number is secret) capture overlapping images from their own carefully determined angles, producing a final set that contains all the information needed for a full 3-D rendering of a city’s buildings. Machine-vision software developed by C3 compares pairs of overlapping images to gauge depth, just as our brains use stereo vision, to produce a richly detailed 3-D model.
Apple está esperado para lanzar su propia solución de mapas en el futuro. Recientemente, la compañía compró el Placebase y Poly9 empresas de mapas y han estado contratando talentos para ayudar a construir un nuevo servicio de mapas.vice.
Fuente: 9to5mac.com
