Blue Vision Labs

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.

Blue Vision Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Frontier Tech, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, and Mapping.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyFrontier TechAugmented RealityComputer VisionMappingLocalizationSpatial ComputingAcquiredRetired

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Agent Surfaces 1

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Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

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Build 1

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GitHubOrganization

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Access & Security 1

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Source (apis.yml)

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.'
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- Company
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- name: LLMs.txt
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  email: info@apis.io
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