Spatial computing is the art of teaching computers to understand the physical world, which of course involves data about the physical world. Whereas the big tech companies are all trying to collect and centralize this data, the posemesh provides a privacy-preserving alternative.

Digital devices don’t have an inherent understanding of where they are in the world. The GPS can only tell you what vicinity you’re in, and it doesn’t work indoors or in dense environments.

To solve the problem of positioning, everyone from Tesla and Meta to Niantic have turned to the camera. By comparing the visual feed of your device to their centralized databases of what the world looks like, the position of your device can be calculated.

Other popular SDKs for shared AR collect camera feed data from third party developers' end users. This means that when you use their SDK to build an AR app and your users allow it to use their camera feed, you are effectively passing your users' data to the company that provided the SDK, and you may not even be aware of it.

In contrast, the Auki SDK does not send any camera feed data to us. When you build on the Auki SDK, your users will privately exchange spatial data with the domain they are visiting or with peers in their area.