3D Mapping Process Packed Into A Tablet

1. It’s A 3D Mapping Process Packed Into A Tablet

Essentially, Project Tango is a way for your smartphone to better understand the world around you. The prototype tablet uses a depth sensor and two cameras to measure your overall environment and develop an understanding of where you are and what’s around you. Which we know sounds pretty cool, but it actually gets quite a bit cooler once you understand the implications.

2. It Opens A New Door For Apps

Imagine this, for a moment. You want to put a new sofa in your living room, but you’re not entirely sure it’s going to fit where the old sofa will. With Project Tango, you can hold up the tablet, scan the room, and then receive data about your new sofa… and determine whether it will fit.

Essentially, it would create a new class of applications, with the ability to scan a three-dimensional space and work out how it interacts with other three dimensional spaces. You could put it in a car and never have to worry about whether or not you’ll fit in a parking space ever again. You could put it on a tablet with CAD software and assemble the pieces of a machine bit by bit. Really, the possibilities of Tango are tantalizing, and these are just the obvious applications; there are likely others nobody’s worked out yet