Centimeter-Resolution GPS For Smartphones, VR, Drones

agent elevator writes: UT Austin engineers have come up with a software fix that corrects for the errors GPS has when using the tiny antennas on smartphones. They demoed it using a VR setup and got 2-cm accuracy. For now it runs on a separate processor from the smartphone, but they say they'll fix that. The demo appears to have been done on a rooftop. VR. Outside. On a roof. Doesn't seem like a good idea, does it?

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Re:I see what you did there

[gstoddart]

Funny, I read it as "is it a good idea to walk around on a roof wearing a VR headset while showing off your fine-grained resolution GPS because you could fall off?"