Google's Project Tango : an effort to develop mobile devices that can map the space around you, is set to be in consumers’ hands next year (2015) , Google announced Thursday at its annual developers conference.
Project Tango, part of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects lab, already does amazing things. Using a camera, motion sensor and depth sensing capabilities, it can see empty space and structures like a human does effortlessly, every day. It can track your path and elevation and what you see while moving through it without GPS, wifi or Bluetooth.
The possible applications live in a world where machines can understand their physical environment like a human can. The visually impaired could navigate new spaces, led by a tablet. Free-flying robots could navigate space.
The developer prototype is a 7-inch tablet with a tiny camera that uses a fish-eye lens for wide peripheral vision with a focused lens for direct vision, a motion-tracking camera and integrated depth sensing. It’s enough for developers to begin playing around with building games and other applications given a human-scale sense of perception.
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