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Google
has been working for some time with universities, research labs, developers,
and other technology companies to build up the capabilities to map and sense
the world in three dimensions via a smartphone or tablet. Dubbed Project Tango,
it was publicly announced in February, and the thought is that it will give
devices a sense of their place in the world similar to our own and so open up a
means of possibilities for new smartphone and tablet uses and features.
For case,
using Google Maps on a regular smartphone will get you to the front door of an
office building. But what if you need to get to a room on a exact floor? With
an understanding of the 3D surroundings, a Project Tango device could make confident
you set up the right door. Or it could just as simply remember on which level
of the multistory garage the car is coming up.
But,
just similar to Google Glass, its smart headset, Project Tango was thought to
be at a very early phase of progress. There are prototype devices accessible
for developers who wish for, to build apps for them, but they cost more than
$1,000 each and, in terms of design.
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| Google tablets mapping 3D |
So
it came as a speck of a shock when Google announced that it was working with LG
and planned to offer the technology in customer tablets early in 2015.
And
although it didn’t talk about specifications or pricing, Google did also verify
that it is working with the Unity and the Unreal game engine and chip-maker
Qualcomm as part of the customer development.
As
well as being able to give instructions in three dimensions or automatically assess
every feature of every room in a house — something that could cause shockwaves
in the interior design community — Project Tango opens up a host of potential
in gaming and contextual awareness, not to state in helping people with
disabilities such as impaired vision gain greater freedom.
