Lenovo To Build Google's First Project Tango Phone (pcworld.com)

Press2ToContinue writes: Google and Lenovo announced plans Thursday night in Las Vegas for the first Project Tango phone to be released this summer for less than $500. Project Tango is Google's vision to bring augmented reality to phones by enabling devices to be able to sense where they are and what is around them. During the announcement, Google's Johnny Lee demonstrated measuring a room using a prototype Project Tango tablet and then shopping at Lowes for furniture that would fit it. Google also announced an app incubator for Project Tango, which they hope will encourage developers to start building apps that make use of the AR technology.

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Lenovo Malware

[kbsoftware]

What kind of sypware/malware will Lenovo be including into this tech?

Re:Lenovo?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would a person with crutches be jumping around in front of a Kinect?

Re:Lenovo?

[Lunix Nutcase]

sending millions of crutch shots to Billy Gates

What's his preference? Metal or wood?

for shopping?

[ljw1004]

Imagine a new tech idea that wasn't used to enhance my shopping or ad-consuming experience...

Re:for shopping?

[Rei]

Indeed, I think they're marketing the whole concept wrong.

I like the above example - a person fixing a car. That'd be pretty darned nifty if you could pull out your phone and get a model of your engine, automatically broken down into identifiable parts (to the degree that the phone can see), fetching the geometry of what it can't see, letting you virtually remove parts out of the way to see what you need to get to, showing you how parts should look so you can see if something looks wrong, etc. They could still work shopping in - maybe a link from a part lets you search new or used parts sellers for example. But the emphasis for the technology shouldn't be "shopping", it should be "everyday life".

They could hit up the Facebook crowd too - capturing 3d videos of events rather than just pictures and videos, tagging their friends, reliving events in a Cardboard or Rift viewer, etc. They could target the creative crowd, showing features for automatic capture and download of 3d models, including tools for preprocessing them into discrete, workable objects. They could target the extreme sports people, for planning and recording their crazy endeavours. And on and on. For almost any group, there's a good way they could market this.

But for YVHV's sake, don't make it all about shopping. :P

Re:for shopping?

[Rei]

Don't go to a shiny-trendy-overpriced-gadget company for your phone dictation needs.
Or an ad company. ;)