Hi Product Hunt community, I m Xiaojun Zhang, founder of EasyAR.
We ve been building EasyAR Mega, a city-scale Visual Positioning System VPS that helps apps understand where they are in the physical world with high accuracy, using only a phone or AR glasses camera.
The problem we re trying to solve is simple: GPS is not accurate enough for AR, especially indoors, in shopping malls, museums, hospitals, campuses, scenic areas, and dense urban spaces. Bluetooth beacons, QR codes, and extra hardware can work in some cases, but they are hard to scale and maintain.
EasyAR Mega is designed to make spatial positioning and AR navigation easier to deploy at real-world scale. With visual maps, developers can build experiences such as indoor/outdoor AR navigation, persistent AR content, location-based AR games, digital human guides, museum tours, retail experiences, and city-scale spatial computing applications.
Q: What kind of hardware do I need to scan an environment and create a map? Do I need expensive LiDAR?
A: No, you don't need expensive specialized gear! EasyAR Mega offers ultimate flexibility in data acquisition. You can use:
Smartphones: Standard iOS or Android devices.
Consumer hardware: Consumer-grade panoramic cameras (e.g., GoPro Max).
Professional gear: High-end laser scanners (like XGRIDS) for ultra-massive or highly complex industrial environments.
Q: Which platforms and XR headsets are supported out of the box?
A: We believe in "Build Once, Deploy Anywhere." EasyAR Mega provides robust Unity plugins and natively supports:
Mobile: iOS, Android, and WeChat Mini-Program
XR Headsets: Apple Vision Pro, XREAL, Rokid, Meta Quest（in development）, and Pico.
Q: What exactly is EasyAR Mega, and how is it different from standard SLAM SDKs?
A: Standard AR SDKs (like basic SLAM) are built for room-scale or tabletop experiences, which easily drift in large open areas. EasyAR Mega is a city-scale Visual Positioning System (VPS) platform. It uses cloud-based spatial computing to bind digital content to persistent, real-world physical coordinates (from shopping malls to entire city blocks) with centimeter-level accuracy