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Google Reportedly Working On 3D imaging (Project Tango) Tablets

An extension of the Project Tango program, Google will build 4,000 prototype tablets to hand out to developers.

 

Google's Project Tango is an experiment to see what uses developers can come up with for a device with 3D mapping capabilities. The company made its interests public by first launching a prototype phone, and now the Wall Street Journal reports that the company plans to produce 4,000 tablets utilising the same technology.

 

The new device will supposedly come with a 7-inch display, infrared depth sensors and two back-mounted cameras. Apart from this, the tablets will also come loaded with some highly complex software that can capture 3D images of objects. None of this technology used is unlike what Google debuted with its Project Tango smartphone.

 

The report adds that the tablets could be released ahead of Google's I/O developers conference that will be held in late June. Just as with the prototype phone, the company will distribute the devices among developers and publications. The reason behind this is simple – so that companies and developers can create apps taking advantage of the technology.

 

While a phone with similar tech for commercial sale is a pretty far fetched idea right now, it's still up there in the ranks of most revolutionary future technologies alongside things like virtual reality. Recently researchers have been able to make drones fly in cramped spaces with pinpoint accuracy, without the use of GPS. Such is the power of 3D imaging.


TAGS: 3D imaging, Google, Project Tango, 3D Tablet

 
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