Embodiments of the present disclosure support a head-mounted display (HMD) wirelessly coupled to a console. The HMD includes a positional tracking system, a beam controller and a transceiver. The positional tracking system tracks position of the HMD and generates positional information describing the tracked position of the HMD. The transceiver communicates with a console via a wireless channel, in accordance with communication instructions, the communication instructions causing the transceiver to communicate over one directional beam of a plurality of directional beams. The beam controller determines a change in the positional information. Based on the change to the positional information, the beam controller determines a directional beam of the plurality of directional beams. The beam controller further generates the communication instructions identifying the determined directional beam, and provides the communication instructions to the transceiver.

Apparatuses, components, devices, methods, and systems for determining and tracking movement are provided. An example apparatus that includes a position indicating system having a first light emitter positioned and oriented to emit light in a first direction, a second light emitter positioned and oriented to emit light in a second direction, the second direction being collinear with and opposite to the first direction; and a third light emitter positioned and oriented to emit light in a third direction, the third direction being different than the first direction and the second direction. The third direction may be offset from the first direction by an offset angle that is an acute angle. The apparatus may also include a screen; an imaging system configured to capture an image of the screen. The first light emitter and the third light emitter may both be configured to emit light toward the screen.

A system and method for displaying an aiming vector of a firearm to a user, including: at least one illuminating source, positioned along a longitudinal axis of a barrel of the firearm and at least one light sensor, mounted onto a headgear at a predetermined position, and configured to detect light parameters from the at least one light source, and a processor, configured to: (i) receive the detected light parameters of the at least one illuminating source (ii) determine a location of the at least one illuminating source, based on the detected light parameters, and (iii) generate an aiming vector of the firearm based on the location of the at least one illuminating source with respect to the predetermined position of the at least one light sensor. A display unit mounted onto a headgear is configured to display the aiming vector generated by the processor.

Provided are a positioning method, apparatus and system, a layout method for a positioning system and a storage medium. A plurality of labels is laid with preset positioning precision in an area to be positioned, where each label among the plurality of labels carries label information, where the label information corresponds to position information of a position of the each label. A position acquisition device reads first label information on a label at a distance not greater than the preset positioning precision from the position acquisition device; and the position acquisition device determines first position information of the position acquisition device according to the first label information.

This specification discloses computer-based systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for estimating the pose of a device, including estimating the pose based on images captured by a set of image sensors disposed around the device's periphery. Some implementations include a system that obtains visual data representing at least one image captured by one or more image sensors of a mobile device. The at least one image show an environment of the mobile device, and the one or more image sensors are located at respective corners of the mobile device, or at other locations around its periphery. The system processes the visual data to determine a pose of the mobile device. Further, the system can determine a location of the mobile device in the environment based on the pose, and can present an indication of the location of the mobile device in the environment.

A coded tracking system includes an imaging device and a target object that includes a plurality of locators emitting light according to a first pattern. An image of the target object captured by the imaging device includes light received by the imaging device from a subset of the plurality of locators. A pattern controller is configured to determine a resolution value for an adjacent pair of light sources in the captured image. The resolution value is indicative of the pattern controller being able to resolve the adjacent pair of light sources as two separate sources. The pattern controller determines a second pattern for the locators based on the resolution value. The second pattern improves a likelihood that the pattern controller can resolve between individual light sources emitting light in the second pattern. The pattern controller instructs the target object for the locators to emit light according to the second pattern.

An inspection system for measuring an object is provided. The inspection system includes an entryway sized to receive the object. At least two non-contact coordinate measurement devices are positioned with a field of view being at least partially within or adjacent to the entryway, each of the at least two non-contact coordinate measurement devices being operable to measure 3D coordinates for a plurality of points on the object as one of the object or the entryway move from a first position to a final position. A pose measurement device is operable to determine the six-degree of freedom (6DOF) pose of the object. One or more processors are provided that register the 3D coordinates for the plurality of points from each of the at least two non-contact coordinate measurement devices based at least in part on the 6DOF pose of the object.

Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for tracking physical objects using a passive reflective object. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a location profile derived from content capturing a passive object having a reflective surface reflecting one or more real-world objects. The passive object is attached to a physical object. The method further includes transmitting the location profile to a simulation device. The method further includes generating a virtual representation of the physical object based on the location profile of the passive object. The method further includes presenting the virtual representation in a simulation experience.

Disclosed are methods, assemblies and devices useful for identifying the location and/or motion of a mobile device in a specified area, for assisting in mapping a specified area and also to methods, assemblies and devices for determining a location of anchors found at fixed locations in a specified area.

An optical navigation system comprising a camera oriented to face towards a plurality of markers located at spaced apart locations from the camera, calculating means adapted to calculate an angle subtended between pairs of markers, the subtended angles being calculated by monitoring the pixel locations of the markers in a series of images captured by the camera, the optical navigation system additionally comprising means for creating a three-dimensional model whereby the location of the camera relative to the markers is determined by triangulating the subtended angles in the three-dimensional model.