Google's TANGO

TANGO-A Window in Virtual World*!!

TANGO:

• TANGO(Formerly known as Project Tango while testing) is a technology platform developed and authored by Google that uses computer vision to enable mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to detect their position relative to the world around them without using GPS or other external signals.
• This feature actually helped developers to create indoor navigation, 3D mapping, physical space measurement, environmental recognition, augmented reality.
• The first product to emerge from Google's ATAP skunkworks group ,Tango was developed by a team led by computer scientist Johnny Lee, a core contributor to Microsoft's Kinect.

So guys isn't this amazing:)...It just proves how incredibly we are exploring every corner of Technology.

So now lets see TANGO in depth.

Tango Enabled Devices*:

The Peanut Phone:

Peanut phone

"Peanut" was the first production Project Tango device, released in the first quarter of 2014. It was a small Android phone with a Qualcomm MSM8974 quad-core processor and additional special hardware including a fisheye-lens camera (for motion tracking), "RGB-IR" camera (for color images and infrared depth detection), and Movidius Vision processing units.

The Yellowstone(7 inch Tablet):

Yellowstone Tablet

"Yellowstone" is a 7-inch tablet with full Project Tango functionality, released in June 2014, and sold as the Project Tango Tablet Development Kit. It features a 2.3 GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra K1 processor

Lenovo Phab 2 Pro(Smartphone):

Lenovo Phab  2 Pro

Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is world first consumer phone based on "Tango". AR(Augmented reality) and VR(Virtual Reality) tools and utilities are available.(Details about this phone will be discussed in upcoming posts.)

In the summer of 2015, Qualcomm and Intel both announced that they are developing Tango reference devices as models for device manufacturers who use their mobile chipsets.

So we will see lots of devices in future enabled with TANGO.

Working*:

Don't get surprised by reading "It detects your position without GPS" :p...this the fact why this project amazed billions of hearts worldwide.

Then how its detect our exact position???

Part 1: Collection of Data

Staircase data

This software works by collecting all the data from these three functionality:

• Motion-tracking: using visual features of the environment, in combination with accelerometer and gyroscope data, to closely track the device's movements in space
• Area learning: storing environment data in a map that can be re-used later, shared with other Project Tango devices, and enhanced with metadata such as notes, instructions, or points of interest
• Depth perception: detecting distances, sizes, and surfaces in the environment

Together, these generate data about the device in "six degrees of freedom" (3 axes of orientation plus 3 axes of motion) and detailed three-dimensional information about the environment.

Part 2: Accessing this Data

Interface to move

Applications on mobile devices use Project Tango's C and Java APIs to access this data in real time.
An Interface is created through which user can moved through the space by rotating and moving tango device in real space.
Take a Techno look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe10ExwzCqk

Applications:

Designer

• NASA is also working on how Project Tango can be implemented in autonomous robots that will navigate in different environmental area including outer area.
• Different Tango apps for creation in real space are available on play store.
• Great  mobile tool for Designer.

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(Note:- * may get changed or new feature may get added. Working and  Devices may differ actually. This content is for information purpose with all respect to Google Tango)