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    Active Badge Version 1 (1988)

Enabled users to be located in a building: supporting direct messaging, communication and context-aware computing.
  Active Badge Map (1991)

An active map application running in X-windows allowing a  receptionist to easily locate team members.
  PARC-Tab (1992)  

The first Context-Aware Mobile Computer.

Diffuse IR-Transceiver for PARC-Tab (1992)

A diffuse infrared-transceiver providing the networking and contextual  infrastructure needed by the PARC-Tab. It was deployed as a micro-cellular system, with one transceiver per room.

 Hikari (1999) 

A personal digital assistant with an inertial sensing UI. Supporting auto-configuration of portrait and landscape mode, by rotating the device; list scrolling by tilting and selection with a grip-clutch; and a ball-bearing (or bubble) selector shown here for selection of items from a grid.

The Intel Personal Server (2005) 

Casting its desktop, file system, audio and video files to nearby screens. Later versions where integrated into a smartphone.

 Android Wi-Fi RTT based indoor Navigation. (2018)

 An application built to demonstrate the IEEE 802.11mc API available since Android P.

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