Informed conjecture from
https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-t...:
Ogmento was founded by my Super Ventures partner Ori Inbar. Ogmento became
FlyBy and the team there successfully built a VIO system on IOS leveraging an
add-on fish eye camera. This code-base was licenced to Google which became
the VIO system for Tango. Apple later bought FlyBy and the same codebase is
the core of ARKit VIO.
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I don’t have any hard insider confirmation on this, but I think the Metaio
codebase would have helped with the plane detection and probably helped with
the mapping/relocalization pieces of the visual tracker. FlyBy had by far the
best Inertial tracker on the market, and it’s this piece that makes ARKit
magic (instant stereo convergence & metric scale in particular).