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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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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label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
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source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
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accessModel:
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onboarding: approval
trial: false
try_now: false
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label: Requires approval
confidence: medium
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
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x-api-posture-note: 'The developer platform is retired: bluevisionlabs.com no longer resolves to a web host, the documentation
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x-source: vc-portfolio
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x-tier: stub
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created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Augmented Reality
- Computer-Vision
- Mapping
- Localization
- Spatial Computing
- Acquired
- Retired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Augmented Reality
- Computer Vision
- Mapping
- Localization
- Spatial Computing
- Acquired
- Retired
apis: []
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- name: GitHub Organization
description: The Blue Vision Labs GitHub organization. Live, but publishes zero public repositories.
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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.
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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'
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