At the conference held during CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Lenovo and Google announced that Project Tango will hit the consumer market. This means that this year the market will be the first device to support this technology.
Read also: Motorola disappears from the market
What Project Tango is?
chief architect and visionary of Project Tango is considered to Johnny Lee, who before coming to Mountain View he worked the motion controllers Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo Wii. The idea standing behind the project was to develop technology that mobile devices will have a “sense of space” – the possibility of three-dimensional modeling 3D space by mobile devices would open entirely new opportunities for application developers. The smartphone can display on the screen at the same time what the camera sees and what is computer-generated. This is similar to the helmet Holo Lens Microsoft closed the smartphone.
Project Tango from Intel or Lenovo
So far, Project Tango was dedicated only to selected developers. Within it also created two test devices – tablet and smartphone, but none of them went to consumers. Intel allows you to buy the right set of OEMs. They can for $ 399 to buy a device with a screen diagonal of 6 inches (2560×1440 pixels), controlled by the processor Atom x7-Z8700 (four cores), equipped with 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of data.
Now Lenovo announced that summer release its own phablet Project Tang on. In this case it is to have a larger screen (6,5cala) and an Intel processor to be replaced by a system of Qualcomm. The phone is equipped with a variety of sensors and cameras that allow it to spatial modeling environment. Among them can be found, among other things lens with a viewing angle of 180 degrees (so-called. Fisheye), front camera wide-angle (120 degrees) and a camera depth. The smartphone is expected to cost $ 500
Lenovo Project Tango
It’s fun, but so what?
Everything sounds really interesting. But what benefits can bring the Tango Project developers and the users of smartphones. It is worth to vote authors of the project.
“Developers will be able to transform your home in the level of the game or create a magical window into the world of augmented reality. Devices with Project Tango can identify areas where previously Byul, such as your living room, office or public space. In contrast to GPS, sensors and cameras Project Tango also work indoors, allowing users to more easily navigate the shopping malls, and even finding a specific item on the shelf. Using built-in sensors, devices with Project Tango can also model the 3D space, which will help eg. In the selection of appropriate furniture and decoration for housing. “
As you can see, Project Tango application developers opens up a whole new world. A world where applications are not just limited to a few-inch screen in our smartphone. Now the space, the application uses, can be your room, kitchen, office, and even sports hall. Certainly it will be some time before developers will discover all the benefits of new technology.
As predicted this year’s CES are fair augmented reality and virtual. This new “hobby” OEMs who want to provide consumers with a new kind of experience. Project Tango will be used both at work (for example visualization) as well as entertainment (room turns into a battlefield).
A sample of the possibilities of new equipment will see in the following recording. Are you interested in such entertainment?
No comments:
Post a Comment