[Video] Google’s "Project Tango" Is An Experimental Phone With 3D Vision - Advanced Tech Tips Blog

[Video] Google’s "Project Tango" Is An Experimental Phone With 3D Vision

Posted: 21 Feb 2014 03:27 AM PST

Google has now lift the curtain off their experimental 3D phone codenamed - Project Tango. The phone in it's current prototype avatar is a 5" gadget having customized hardware and software designed to track the full 3D motion of the device, while simultaneously creating a map of the environment. These sensors allow the phone to make over a quarter million 3D measurements every second, updating its position and orientation in real-time, combining that data into a single 3D model of the space around you. The phone features a custom version of Android and is now being provided to interested developers across the globe, the software's includes development APIs to provide position, orientation, and depth data to standard Android applications written in Java, C/C++, as well as the Unity Game Engine. A demonstration video showing capabilities and use-case scenarios was also shared with public as posted below.