Google is not abandoning Project Ara, after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group from Motorola. ATAP only just announced Tango, its 3D-environment sensor for mobile devices, and now it’s revealing a two-day developer conference April 15 and 16 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Ara, for those who aren’t familiar, is a modular smartphone project that would allow users to swap out interchangeable parts to give their device...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Posted by Arslan Ahmad on 7:30 AM
Google, known for many mysterious and discreet projects in tech field, has come out with another innovative breakthrough in an experimental Android-powered smartphone with powerful 3D sensors called Project Tango.
The project is part of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group and it is still in early stages of development. The first 200 prototypes will be available for developers by mid-March, 2014 and Google is handpicking those whom it would send the prototypes.
“The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale...
Friday, February 21, 2014
Posted by Arslan Ahmad on 4:49 AM
Google is offering developers the chance to test the limits of a prototype Android smartphone that can sense 3D motion and geometry.The vendor said the technology could be used to produce indoor maps of buildings, as a navigational aid for the visually impaired, or help people find products in retail environments.The search giant has made 200 prototype developer kits, and said it wants to give them away to people with an interest in “pushing the technology forward” and improving the device’s user experience.
“We have allocated some of these...
Posted by Arslan Ahmad on 2:15 AM
Imagine a 3D world fully realised on your mobile phone, but not as you know it. Project Tango is the world around us, superimposed into our mobile phones. Now, the video makes it look like a game-changer and after looking at the facts, we’re convinced that it will be. Project Tango’s goal? To make our smartphones look and understand the physical environment. There are 200 development kits and Google aims to ship them all by March 14 2014.Currently, this takes the form of a prototype Android phone fitted with custom hardware that tracks the 3D...
Posted by Arslan Ahmad on 2:05 AM
When Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 Billion at the end of last month, many were worried about what this would mean for the future of the team behind Motorola’s modular smartphone project code named Ara. Then one week ago, the ATAP team announced that it would be moving from Motorola to Google. This naturally lead to speculation regarding whether the ATAP team had anything else cooking in their secret ovens. The answer is now here: Google Project Tango.
In its current form, Project Tango is a working...
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