Niantic is "the world’s leading augmented reality company with an initial focus on augmented reality games. We see a future where our technology paves the way for new entertainment experiences, advanced robotics, and scaled adaptive computing ..."
“We’ve built the world’s only planet-scale augmented reality platform for current and future generations of augmented reality hardware.”
Manufacturer of a wide range of metrology systems, including a range of 3D metrology systems such as camera tracking systems and sub-mm polar scanning systems.
The indoor GPS system, previously a Nilon Metrology product, was acquired by 7D Kinematic Metrology in April 2019.
NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is the National Metrology Institute of the USA.
Within NIST, The dimensional metrology group´s diverse metrology tasks also encompass the portable measurement technologies relevant to Large Volume Metrology.
Feb. 2020: Group leader Dan Sawyer is a member of the executive committee of the CMSC (separate listing).
NLR - Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (P)
The NLR, the "Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium" or "Netherlands Aerospace Centre" is a research organization dedicated to solutions which make aerospace more sustainable, safer, efficient and effective.
It is listed here because of its past use of innovative optical methods for determining in-flight wing deformation. For example, see the Technical Publication NLR-TP-2008-718, available on the website.
Noitom´s focus is to develop world-class motion capture technology by the integration of MEMS sensors, pattern recognition, human kinetics, and wireless transition. The company name
Noitom delivers motion capture not only to the film, gaming and animation fields, but can also extend their technology into education, medicine and science.
Nottingham University AMT: MMT - Manufacturing Metrology Team (P)
The MMT is lead by Prof. Richard Leach.
MMT research enables next-generation surface texture and form measurement solutions for growing advanced manufacturing sectors such as additive manufacturing. A wide variety of high-precision production applications can be addressed using the team´s information-rich metrology approach.
Nottingham University CAM - Centre for Aerospace Manufacturing (P)
The centre´s director is Prof. Svetan Ratchev. A number of aerospace research projects are currently active and 3D metrology is commonly required. See, for example, the VADIS project.
