SDK essentials: Glossary

Glossary of terms

Spatial computing

The art of teaching computers to understand the physical world.

Posemesh

The posemesh is a decentralized machine perception network and a collaborative spatial computing protocol. It is a mesh of machines reasoning about pose.

Domain

A domain is a digital representation of a physical environment and a named coordinate system.

Pose

A pose is a position and rotation within a coordinate system.

Portal

QR codes with known sizes and poses within a domain. These serve as entry and calibration points for the domain.

Spatial semantics

Data that describes the meaning of an object, such as "table, floor, wall", along with its pose.

For a full list of glossary terms and an overview of how the posemesh protocol works, please refer to the Auki Posemesh whitepaper.

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