# Blue Vision Labs

> Blue Vision Labs built the first city-scale augmented reality cloud — a shared,
> persistent AR platform where multiple devices see the same virtual content in the
> same real-world place. It was acquired by Lyft in October 2018 and folded into
> Lyft's Level 5 self-driving division as its UK hub. **The developer platform is
> retired and no public API, SDK, or documentation surface remains online.**

generated: 2026-07-20
method: generated
source: apis.yml + lifecycle/blue-vision-labs-lifecycle.yml + archived bluevisionlabs.com (2019-07-16 snapshot)

## Status

- Company status: acquired / absorbed (Lyft, October 2018)
- Platform status: retired
- Website: bluevisionlabs.com — domain still registered, no A/AAAA record, does not serve
- Developer portal / documentation: offline
- Public API: none
- Public SDK artifacts: none found on npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, pkg.go.dev, RubyGems, Packagist or crates.io
- GitHub organization: https://github.com/bluevisionlabs (live, zero public repositories)

## What the platform was

Blue Vision Labs crowdsourced highly detailed 3D maps of entire cities using images
captured from car-mounted smartphone cameras, achieving centimetre-level positioning
without GPS or traditional maps. Developers used an SDK to perform visual positioning
against that map and to place and retrieve persistent AR content.

Documented capability areas (from the archived product site):

- Navigation — AR wayfinding with virtual instructions anchored in the street
- Social — shared experiences where every participant sees the same content
- Gaming — collaborative AR games with many simultaneous users
- Exploration — persistent digital annotations on physical places
- Transportation — live AR location sharing to find a ride on a busy street
- Retail — product and promotion highlighting in-store

## Historical developer surface (no longer available)

- Authentication: API key, issued through an invite-only early access program
- iOS SDK 1.0.0 — Swift, iOS 11+
- Android SDK 1.0.0 — Unity (C#), Android 7.0+
- Map coverage: San Francisco, New York City, London

## For agents

There is nothing to integrate with. Do not attempt to call bluevisionlabs.com
endpoints, request API keys, or install a Blue Vision SDK — none of these resolve.
Third-party packages named `bluevision` (PyPI) and `@bluevision/*` (npm) are
unrelated projects and are NOT first-party Blue Vision Labs software.

If you are looking for the successor to this technology, it lives inside Lyft
(https://www.lyft.com/) and is not exposed as a public API.

## Artifacts in this profile

- apis.yml — API Evangelist company profile
- lifecycle/blue-vision-labs-lifecycle.yml — full timeline, product status, sunset record
- security/blue-vision-labs-domain-security.yml — DNS/TLS probe of bluevisionlabs.com
- llms/blue-vision-labs-llms.txt — this file