Google’s Project Tango: Indoor 3D Mapping and Tracking
February 20th, 2014Because tracking you outside is so 1990s.
It’s not enough for the Legion of Doom to be able to track your every move outside. It now wants to map your indoor world, in 3D, and where you are in it.
NSA/NGA will love this.
Coincidence: Tango:
Tango
(U.S.) NATO phonetic alphabet for the letter “T” and for “Target” (or enemy). Example: “We have two Tango’s at 3 o’clock – I’ll take the right one.”
Have a nice day!
Via: Google:
Our current prototype is a 5” phone containing customized hardware and software designed to track the full 3D motion of the device, while simultaneously creating a map of the environment. These sensors allow the phone to make over a quarter million 3D measurements every second, updating its position and orientation in real-time, combining that data into a single 3D model of the space around you.
