Confirmation: Apple bought a company specializing in 3D mapping (video)

It has been mentioned many times
times already on the occasion of repurchases,Appleis formed
gradually
a technology portfolioaround the
cartography.

This makes it possible to consider the creation of an in-house service to replace or
complement ofGoogle Maps, supplied by a competitor who can
reserve the most innovative features as a differentiator.
Confirming the Apple firm's desire for independence, we learn that it
has indeed bought C3 technologies, a company which has a technology of
street view type (photographic vision of places)… Even better, to taste
below in video:

Thus, 9to5Mac indicates that Mattias Astrom, the director of C3 Technologies
and two other company officialsnow work for the
division iOS d’Apple, from Sweden, where the company was located
before the takeover by Apple.

The company specializes in 3D modeling and rendering
associated photography. Unlike Google Street View which displays
real photos, the mapping proposed by C3 Technologies consists of
reallymodel all the information(buildings, altitude,
streets, etc.) and to apply on top ofphotographic textures
real. This gives an additional dynamic dimension since it
becomes possible to“look” at landscapes from any point
view and turn around.

We hope that Apple will make good use of this, as it has been able to integrate
l’assistantSiribought back many months ago for
make it a real asset of its latest iPhone.

Here are videos of techno in action (Editor's note: for the problems of
video that "eats the text" on the iFon app, please note that a corrective version
is awaiting validation):

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