Project Tango is Giving Mobile Devices a Sense of Space and Motion (Video)

Project Tango is part of Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), which Wikipedia says was "...formerly a division of Motorola." Tango's goal is "to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion." We humans and our forebears have spent millions of years learning to sense our surroundings, not as a set of static 2D images, but in 3D with motion. This YouTube video starring Johnny Lee, the Tango project lead Tim interviewed at Google I/O 2014, gives you some decent insight into Project Tango's goals -- in addition to our video, that is. (Alternate Slashdot Video Link)

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Why don't they do something really worthwhile

[company suckup]

and give touch-screen keyboards the same feel as using a real keyboard?

Re:Why don't they do something really worthwhile

[Beck_Neard]

As far as google is concerned, you're going to be using voice commands anyway.

Better quality more lag

[djscoumoune]

Compared to their previous video, the density of the 3d scan is better though it doesn't really put textures. But for games there's so much delay when he moves forward to push that blue button, and also it smooths the motion so much i really doubt it can be used especially in a controller. I can't see it used in something better than a Kinect Joy Ride 2.0. There are already low quality lidars for vacuum cleaners (like neato xv11) than can be used to do that better, and this summer there's the Lidar Lite that's out so we'll see how it compares. But I don't have hopes for the project tango.

Re:Better quality more lag

[citizenr]

half of that delay is probably from wirelessly casting video from tablet to that TV

Christ...

[OakDragon]

article a video

So is Google going to boot tango from the store?

[visualight]

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