Why is Google going backwards with Project Tango tablets?

Google’s Project Tango is set to spawn a new device, so the leaks would have it, with the company tipped to be readying 4,000 prototype 3D scanning tablets just in … Continue reading

NASA SPHERES with Project Tango integration head to ISS this summer

Google unveiled its slick Project Tango 3D mapping system inside a prototype smartphone not long ago. We got to see what all the camera lenses inside the Project Tango smartphone … Continue reading

Google Project Tango teardown exposes 3D camera secrets

Google’s Project Tango 3D mapping phones are in short supply – only around 200 out in the wild for developers to try – but that hasn’t stopped a teardown on … Continue reading

Google’s Environment Sensing Project Tango Gets A Teardown

project-tango-teardown Google’s Project Tango prototype smartphone is armed with four cameras to allow it to take stock of its environment and record and use 3D depth-sensing info, and it’s basically just a bunch of cameras and sensor glommed onto a fairly impressive Android smartphone with a quad-core processor and 2GBs of RAM to crunch all that environment data. iFixit got to tear it down and have a look… Read More

Project Tango Teardown: Google’s Crazy Camera System (Oh, And a Phone)

Project Tango Teardown: Google's Crazy Camera System (Oh, And a Phone)

Google’s Project Tango isn’t coming to stores near you any time soon. You wouldn’t even know what to do with it if it did. Still, the folks at iFixit got their hands on one and tore it apart. What’s inside? Mostly a ton of crazy cameras, with a phone almost as an afterthought.

Read more…




LazeeEye Wants To Give Any Smartphone 3D Mapping Capabilities

Hardware add-ons for smartphones continue to crop up, letting mobile users extend the powers of their devices in new and interesting ways. Here’s the latest: LazeeEye is a prototype add-on, currently seeking crowdfunds via Kickstarter, that wants to augment your existing handset with laser-powered 3D mapping capabilities — and do so for very little extra money. It’s designed to… Read More

Google Project Tango hands-on: 3D mapping with phones

Google loves smartphones, but with Project Tango it’s hoping to make them even smarter and more aware. The handiwork of Google’s skunkworks Advanced Technology and Projects Group, it explores what … Continue reading

Google Project Tango demos arrive: world scanning begins

If you weren’t entirely convinced that Google’s demonstrations of scanning everything and anything were entirely on-the-level when Project Tango was revealed, it’s time to get taught. The folks at MAKE … Continue reading

Project Tango’s Camera Specifications Revealed

Project Tangos Camera Specifications RevealedBack in February, Google announced a new project that they were working on called Project Tango. The project was basically a smartphone that came with a pretty interesting camera that would be able to scan its surroundings in 3D, thus allowing it to use the captured data to generate 3D maps and virtual environments.

This might come in handy for those who are planning on renovating their homes or buying new furniture and they need to have a 3D model in order to better visualize what’s going on, and how much space that they might have to work with. (more…)

  • Follow: Cellphones, Photo-Video, , project tango,
  • Project Tango’s Camera Specifications Revealed original content from Ubergizmo.

        



    More Project Tango Specs Revealed, Showing Two Wide-Angle And One Depth-Sensing Camera

    Google’s Project Tango smartphone is a 3D environment sensing hardware experiment, which the company is hoping to ship to developers soon (today is the anticipated ship date Google stated, in fact) had some of its specs revealed in a Chrome issue tracker spotted by Myce this morning. The new specs give us a closer look at how exactly Google does its 3D context sensing magic. The key… Read More