Wide area augmented reality location-based services

A method of rendering augmented reality (AR) with a device, the method comprising:

• obtaining sensor data from at least one sensor on the device, the at least one sensor including a location sensor, wherein the sensor data corresponds to a real-time perspective of a user, and includes a device location obtained from the location sensor and real-world image data;
• obtaining an area of interest via an area database based on at least the device location within the sensor data;
• accessing an area tile map of the area of interest, the area tile map represented by a set of tile subareas that includes one or more tessellated tiles from a tessellated tile map;
• identifying a tile subarea from the set of tile subareas based at least in part on the device location relative to one or more locations of tile subareas from the set of tile subareas, wherein the identified tile subarea covers at least a portion of the area of interest, and wherein one or more tessellated tiles within the identified tile subarea are associated with one or more AR content objects from an AR content database communicatively coupled with the device over a network;
• automatically populating a non-transitory computer readable memory of the device with at least one of the one or more AR content objects from the AR content database, wherein the at least one of the one or more AR content objects is associated with the one or more tessellated tiles within the identified tile subarea;
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• rendering the at least one of the one or more AR content objects that is associated with the identified tile subarea on a display of the device based on the device location relative to the area of interest, wherein the at least one of the one or more AR content objects is rendered as a visual overlay of a view of interest associated with the real-world image data.

A computer program product embedded in at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising software instructions for rendering augmented reality (AR) content on a computing device, which, when executed, configure one or more computer processors to perform a method comprising:

• obtaining sensor data from a plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors including a location sensor and a camera, wherein the sensor data corresponds to a real-time perspective of a user, and includes a device location of the computing device obtained from the location sensor and image data from the camera;
• obtaining an area of interest via an area database based on at least the device location within the sensor data;
• accessing an area tile map of the area of interest, the area tile map represented by a set of tile subareas that includes one or more tessellated tiles from a tessellated tile map;
• identifying a tile subarea from the set of tile subareas based at least in part on the device location relative to one or more locations of tile subareas from the set of tile subareas, wherein the identified tile subarea covers at least a portion of the area of interest, and wherein one or more tessellated tiles within the identified tile subarea are associated with one or more AR content objects;
• automatically populating a non-transitory computer readable memory of the computing device with at least one of the one or more AR content objects associated with the one or more tessellated tiles within the identified tile subarea;
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• rendering the at least one of the one or more AR content objects that is associated with the identified tile subarea on a display of the computing device as a visual overlay of a real-world image generated from the image data.