ARLA/CLUSTER: Projecto Tango ATAP Google

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 Google's Project Tango

We are excited to announce a new project from ATAP, something that we
have been working quietly on over the past year.

As we walk through our daily lives, we use visual cues to navigate and
understand the world around us. We use our eyes to observe the size
and shape of objects and rooms, and we learn their position and layout
over time almost effortlessly . This awareness of space and motion is
fundamental to the way we interact with our environment and each
other. We are physical beings that live in a 3D world. Yet, our mobile
devices assume that physical world ends at the boundaries of the
screen.

The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale
understanding of space and motion.

Our team has been working with universities, research labs, and
industrial partners spanning nine countries around the world to
harvest research from the last decade of work in robotics and computer
vision, concentrating that technology into a unique mobile phone. Now,
we’re ready to put early prototypes into the hands of developers that
can imagine the possibilities and help pull those ideas into reality.

What if you never found yourself lost in a new building again? What if
directions to a new location didn’t stop at the street address?
Imagine playing hide-and-seek in your house with your favorite game
character. Imagine competing against a friend for control over
physical space with your own miniature army.

We hope you will take this journey with us. We believe it will be one
worth traveling. To find out more, and apply for a development kit
visit http://g.co/ProjectTango.

The future is awesome. Let’s build it together.

Johnny Lee, and the ATAP Project Tango team
 http://youtu.be/Qe10ExwzCqk


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