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Google Project Tango uses your smartphone to make a 3D map of the world

Google launched "Project Tango", an experimental smartphone and a development kit that incorporates 3D sensors capable of scanning the environment. It is designed as a 5-inch phone, which contains separate hardware and software, a GPS antenna that allows the location of the smartphone you own. Of course, there are also models that can take 3D photos. The first prototype of Project Tango makes more than a quarter of a million 3D measurements every second, finding three-dimensional movement that creates a visual 3D map of the space around it.

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Project Tango is, in fact, an intersection between several technologies, including photo technologies, sensor technologies, inertial measurements and advanced processing. All this forms a string of data that records the environmental changes around the smartphone and forms a 3D map in real time. The usefulness of this type of map could go from helping people with disabilities to applications in architecture, interior design and other similar industries.

The company also imagined Project Tango as the first step towards the world of games that merge with real world locations.

 

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