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Google's Project Tango Aims to Create 3D Alternate Realities

Feb 20, 2014, 3:24 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Google today announced Project Tango, an initiative that involves an Android smartphone able to create 3D maps of the world around it. Google is offering adventurous app developers kits that include a 5-inch Android smartphone with a bevy of sensors on board that can track the full 3D motion of the device. The kit includes development APIs to provide position, orientation, and depth data to standard Android applications. Google wants some of the devices used for projects that explore indoor navigation, mapping, and single/multiplayer games that use physical space. The rest Google hopes will be used by developers who are "bold" and "creative" to write new apps not yet imagined. In order to get one of the 200 test kits, developers need to submit an application with proposal to Google. Google hopes to assign the 200 devices to testers by mid-March.

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aeternavi

Feb 20, 2014, 5:17 PM

Yay!

No more wasted time actually visiting something! Who needs actual reality when you have virtual reality!

/sarcasm

Tofuchong

I think they mean alternate realities. Like, not somebody creating the inside of a church, or monument, or location, but totally alternate realities, like an alien world, or the inside of a starship - things we couldn't do on our own with what we have...
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