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Cheney: Mobile tech lacks indoor contextual intelligence despite 80% indoor time

Steve Cheney · a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile · Jan 2, 2019 · at 1:56

Steve Cheney of Estimote outlines the gap in location computing between outdoor GPS capabilities and indoor context aware environments.

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“There's a missing link there where there's still no layer of context in physical and indoor environments, which is where we spend, what, 80% of our time?”

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