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New Centimeter-Accurate GPS System Could Transform Virtual Reality and Mobile Devices

May 5, 2015
Img: Two of the Cockrell School graduate students behind Radiosense, Ken Pesyna and Andrew Kerns. Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a centimeter-accurate GPS-based positioning system that could revolutionize geolocation on virtual reality headsets, cellphones and other technologies, making global positioning and orientation far more precise than what is currently available on a mobile device.
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Up in the Air: The Drone Revolution

Dec. 9, 2014
By Andrew Roush, originally featured in the Alcalde.  The drone revolution isn’t coming—it’s already here. Can UT expertise help us navigate the future?