Project Tango graduated!

Google's Project Tango just shipped a few days ago, and there's been some good news lately. It has graduated from Google's advanced technology and projects (legendary ATAP) and moved to the regular business unit. The next step is likely to be commercialized.

In February 2014, Google unveiled Project Tango, which has developed a smartphone with a specially designed sensor and matching software that can perform 15 million 3D measurements per second, combined with its real-time monitoring location and direction, Can eventually be combined with a large amount of data to map the surrounding world 3D models. This is an absolute boon for developers who also need to draw and import 3D scenarios every time.

A few days ago Google Glass from Google X "graduation", but the situation is quite the opposite, Google Glass progress is not smooth, but project Tango future is good. Even Google's spokesmen say that Project Tango has made a lot of technical progress in just two years, and Google will continue to develop the technology, but not to disclose specific product forms. Perhaps the next generation of Nexus smartphones will use this technology, with a deep camera.

The same is Google's innovation department, to cultivate a project Tango ATAP and Google X is very different, ATAP concern about mobile Internet, the commercialization of technology, product, generally will only give the project two years of training time. With Project Tango, ATAP first confirmed the project's value in terms of technology, engineering, and then began recruiting academics, industry experts, Daniel, as a team, many of them computer vision, robotics, camera production experts, from Europe and the United States famous universities and NASA. A research team will then be formed to complete the project in two years ' time. If you can't do it for two years, you can only make a pass for others. It is because of a sense of urgency to avoid the "pure research" model, in more than two years, the cultivation of 11 good projects, such as Project Tango, modular mobile phone project Ara and digital tattoo Vivalnk.