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Comment by pinum

>The dead reckoning a phone does over its accelerometers absolutely yields a position

Accelerometers yes, gyroscopes no. The video covers accelerometers later but hasn't introduced them yet, and the "your phone knows its position" line has a visual of an IC labelled "MEMS gryoscope".

parent pinum 16 days ago

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