Tango (platform)

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Tango (during the development of Project Tango ) was developed by Google as a technology platform to enable mobile devices such as tablet computers or smartphones to use machine vision to determine their position relative to the outside world without GPS or other signal-based positioning. This allowed developers to create mobile apps with functions such as interior navigation, measurement of real objects or applications for augmented or virtual reality .

In January 2016 Google announced at the Consumer Electronics Show a partnership with Lenovo to release a smartphone with Project Tango method and ToF-camera for under 500 dollars on.

In August 2017, Google announced that the Tango project would be replaced by the ARCore augmented reality platform , as ARCore does not require any additional equipment. In the meantime, the project's webpage has also been switched off.

Individual evidence

  1. How Google's Project Tango will change your life , Computerworld, January 4, 2016 (English)
  2. Lenovo builds Project Tango smartphone for under $ 500 , golem.de, January 8, 2016
  3. ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale , Google.com August 29, 2017