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Vision Navigation Part 2a: Implementing a Toy Vision Navigation System

Vision Navigation is a blanket term that describes using optical-like raster input devices to discover your position and orientation (“pose”) and then use that position to plan, execute and monitor changes in position/pose within the environment. This whitepaper introduces the techniques, strengths and weaknesses, applications and processes of computer vision navigation.

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Vision Navigation robot using Aruco/Apriltag style fiducial markers to conduct visual navigation

Vision Navigation Part 1: Overview of Vision Navigation

Vision Navigation is a blanket term that describes using optical-like raster input devices to discover your position and orientation (“pose”) and then use that position to plan, execute and monitor changes in position/pose within the environment. This whitepaper introduces the techniques, strengths and weaknesses, applications and processes of computer vision navigation.

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AlphaPixel and Robert Osfield make OpenSceneGraph significantly faster on AR/VR/xR/Holographics displays

AlphaPixel Software Development and OpenSceneGraph Professional Services have released OVR_MultiView2 extension support for OpenSceneGraph to greatly improve performance of OpenSceneGraph on multi-view applications (VR/AR, Holographic).   Working together, AlphaPixel and Robert Osfield, project lead of OpenSceneGraph, have integrated support for the OpenGL extension called GL_OVR_multiview2 ( https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/OVR/OVR_multiview2.txt ). This extension can significantly decrease rendering overhead

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AlphaPixel receives US Defense Logistics Agency DD2345 Certification

We are now a Directive 5230.25 / DD2345 certified US-based software developer. For 2021, AlphaPixel has become certified by the United States Defense Logistics Agency with a Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement to allow us access to unclassified technical data governed by DoD Directive 5230.25. DD2345 / Directive 5230.25 certification is required by U.S. or Canadian

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IITSEC 2015 AlphaPixel appearance

AlphaPixel will be at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (IITSEC) in Orlando, FL, November 29th through December 3. We will be showing off the diverse talents we can apply to your toughest projects involving 3D Graphics, GIS/GPS/INS/Telemetry, Terrain/Maps, LIDAR, WebGL, Unity, Unreal, Mobiles Devices, Embedded Systems, UAVs, Avionics and more! Our show special rate of 10% off

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Digital Stone Cartography

AlphaPixel and Red Geographics partnered to produce a massive, detailed relief map of the United States to be etched into black marble for a custom cartography art installation.

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AlphaPixel Ports OSG to Yocto-based Nvidia Jetson TK1

In a powerful one-two punch, AlphaPixel added support for the NVidia Jetson TK1 to the Open Source Yocto Linux distribution-builder, and then added OSG and OsgEarth (and their dependencies like GDAL) support to Yocto, allowing for easy and functional deployment of OSG/osgEarth apps on the powerful Jetson platform. The Jetson is a Tegra K1 (ARM

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