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You are here: Home / News / GPS / Kickstarter Tip – Spike : Laser accurate measurement & modeling on smartphones

Kickstarter Tip – Spike : Laser accurate measurement & modeling on smartphones

September 30, 2013 By Editor

Experience laser accurate Augmented Reality. Measure & model the outside world, fast. Develop immersive laser based smartphone apps… details of this kickstarter project from iKeGPS

Spike has both professional & recreational applications. It’s designed for anyone who needs to measure, map or model their outside world.

You could be an architect, engineer, interior designer, or film set locator. An insurance appraiser, underwriter/valuer, commercial painter or arborist. If, for example, you currently use a Laser Range Finder, Spike’s extraordinary capability will amaze you!

– Use the Spike platform for laser-accurate Augmented Reality applications

– Develop totally new and disruptive Remote Location Based Services

Built for Developers & Hackers

Being developers ourselves we’ve early adoption and hacking in our blood. In line with our goal of building the Spike community to help us broaden Spike’s capability, we’ve been inspired by seeing the innovative apps and hacks that communities have created for other measurement & modeling products.

So we’re providing with Spike a fully specified API for you to develop applications. You’ll be able to embed our specialist ikeTools into your application, or build your application over the data stream from the calibrated laser camera, to give your applications long range accuracy and depth perception.

We can’t wait to see what you guys will develop! From Augmented Reality to Location Based Services functionality – go wild! Tap into laser accuracy to make your AR apps convenient, powerful, accurate and actually useful in the real world.

Then get your app into Google Play and App stores to start monetizing!

See details on the Kickstarter Page 

Spike is the world’s first laser accurate smartphone accessory. 

With Spike you can snap, measure, map, 3D model (& share) any object up to 600 feet away.

Just by taking a snapshot of it on your smartphone!

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