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Research and product updates from FPV Labs.
Introducing FPV-SLAM: State of the Art SLAM for egocentric data
FPV-SLAM ranks #1 on the monocular-inertial track of LaMAria, ETH Zurich's city-scale egocentric SLAM benchmark, leading all five categories.
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Introducing Ego-OSCAR: An Open-Source Stereo Capture Inertial Stack along with 550 hours of egocentric stereo data
An open-hardware, head-mounted stereo-inertial capture device for egocentric data collection in the wild - under USD 200 in commodity parts - released with 550 hours of stereo data captured across 100+ environments.
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Stera 2.0: The Capture Stack for Egocentric RGB-D data is now open source
We are open-sourcing Stera 2.0: a capture stack for collecting high-fidelity multimodal RGB-D data from commodity mobile phones. The mobile app, native recording engine, upload backend, and white-label tooling let any lab own its own capture stack.
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Introducing Vidur: State-of-the-Art Action Labels for Raw Robot and Human Video
Our production-grade system for fine-grained action labeling of raw robot and human egocentric video. Vidur sets a new state of the art on WGO-Bench and beats Gemini 3.5 Flash on EgoExoLearn at lower cost.
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How accurate is an iPhone tracking, really?
Benchmarking ARKit pose for Stera against a 24-camera Vicon system and over hour-long sessions: metric to within centimetres, sub-degree, and drift-bounded under 1 cm across full-home captures.
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Introducing Project Stera: An Open Infrastructure for Embodied AI Research
A full-stack platform for high-fidelity multimodal data capture and Stera-10M open-source dataset collected on commodity hardware.
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Rolling Shutter vs Global Shutter: The Sensor Tradeoff in Egocentric Tracking
Why the sensor-level choice between rolling and global shutter matters deeply for egocentric SLAM, and what can be done about it.
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SLAM and VIO in Egocentric Data: Where Long-Horizon Tracking Breaks
Why long-horizon state tracking in egocentric manipulation is harder than it looks, and why it matters for robot learning.
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Announcing FPV Labs
FPV Labs is building the full-stack infrastructure for capturing, processing, and transferring human experience into machine knowledge.
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