aid: blue-vision-labs
name: Blue Vision Labs
description: 'Blue Vision Labs was a London-based computer-vision company that built the first city-scale
  augmented reality cloud — crowdsourcing centimetre-accurate 3D maps of entire cities from images captured
  by car-mounted smartphone cameras, then letting developers use visual positioning to place shared and
  persistent AR content that every device sees in the same real-world spot. It emerged from stealth in
  March 2018 with a $14.5M round led by GV, alongside Accel and Horizons Ventures, and offered invite-only
  early access to iOS and Android SDKs covering San Francisco, New York City and London. Lyft acquired the
  company in October 2018 and made it the UK hub of its Level 5 self-driving division. The developer
  platform is retired: bluevisionlabs.com no longer resolves to a web host, the documentation and SDK
  downloads are offline, and no public API surface remains.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/19323859?v=4
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/blue-vision-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-platform-retired
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Augmented Reality
- Computer Vision
- Mapping
- Localization
- Spatial Computing
- Acquired
- Retired
apis: []
common:
- name: GitHub Organization
  description: The Blue Vision Labs GitHub organization. Live, but publishes zero public repositories.
  type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bluevisionlabs
- name: Lifecycle
  description: Timeline, product status and sunset record for the Blue Vision AR Cloud and its SDKs.
  type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/blue-vision-labs-lifecycle.yml
- name: Domain Security
  description: DNS, mail and transport-security probe of bluevisionlabs.com.
  type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/blue-vision-labs-domain-security.yml
- name: LLMs.txt
  description: Agent-facing summary of what Blue Vision Labs was and why there is nothing to integrate
    with.
  type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/blue-vision-labs-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1