Sturfee is developing a Visual Positioning Service (VPS) that enables augmented reality (AR) experiences by accurately determining user location and orientation within urban environments. This technology facilitates persistent digital overlays on physical spaces, allowing multiple users to interact with shared AR content in real-time.
Funding
$4M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Existing augmented reality (AR) applications in urban environments struggle with accurately determining a user's location and orientation, hindering the creation of persistent and shared AR experiences. Reliance on vehicle-based scanning or collaborative point clouds for city-scale computer vision is operationally intensive and costly to scale.
Solution
Sturfee offers a Visual Positioning Service (VPS) that enables precise localization for AR applications across entire cities. Using satellite imagery and computer vision, Sturfee creates a machine-readable 3D mesh of the world, enabling devices to instantly recognize their 3D surroundings. This VPS technology allows for instant localization, 3D geometry detection, multi-user interactions, and persistent world anchors, facilitating a range of applications from city guides and navigation to gaming and outdoor advertising. The platform supports the creation of an invisible layer of clickable interactive content, consisting of links, text, pictures, videos, and games.
Target Audience
The primary customers are AR app developers, telecommunications companies, and city planners seeking to create immersive and interactive AR experiences in urban environments.
Features
- Instant localization: Quickly determines the user's position and orientation anywhere in the city.
- 3D Geometry Detection: Detects 3D ground and buildings around the user for providing occlusion and interaction.
- Multi-User Interactions: Enables multiple users to simultaneously work and play in the same AR experience.
- Persistent World Anchors: Digital objects remain in the real world even after the app is off, just like real objects.
- City-scale 3D model generation from satellite imagery.
- AI-powered 3D location recognition.
- SDK (software developer kit) allows developers to paint the world with an invisible layer of clickable interactive content.