Project Tango
President Obama Takes VR for a Spin, Thinks Hand Tracking is “Impressive”
Amidst a mounting trade deal between the U.S. and the EU, President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel today visited the Hannover Messe, an annual trade fair for industrial technology, where they donned a VR headset using a depth...
Star Wars Features in Latest Project Tango Mixed Reality Project
Trixi Studios have released a video demonstrating their latest project leveraging the AR and mixed reality power of Google's Project Tango platform. The video features Star Wars: The Force Awakens character BB-8 and a gaggle of stormtroopers projected into reality and...
Google’s ‘Project Tango’ Competition Winners Showcase the Tech’s Potential
Google have announce the winners of their Project Tango innovators competition, designed to draw out original and impressive use cases for the computer vision, environment mapping technology.
Project Tango is a computer vision project by Google designed to use depth...
Google Tango Dev Contest Includes AR/VR Track and $95,000 in Prize Money
Project Tango is Google's computer vision initiative that seeks to equip consumer devices with consistent and useful environmental tracking capabilities. Google thinks that the platform could be useful for virtual and augmented reality too, and is encouraging developers to start experimenting by...
Google Wants to Use Tango Tech for VR, But Admits Current Dev Kits Aren’t Optimized
Project Tango, Google's computer vision project able to track and map 3D spaces in realtime, may well find its way into future VR projects from the company, but they admit that current developer hardware may not be up to...
Google’s Chief Game Designer to Talk Tango at GDC, Augmenting Virtual Reality with the Real World
Google will be demoing some of their new sensor-assisted virtual reality technology at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which promises to "enable Holodeck-like experiences with less than $100 add-on cost" to mobile devices. While not explicitly named,...
News Bits: New Project Tango Video Demonstrates Incredible Realtime Environment Capture
Project Tango is project from the labs of Google that represents the cutting edge in realtime environment capture and modelling. The system, currently running only on dedicated hardware prototypes (codenamed 'Peanut'), uses advanced depth and plus high resolution optical...











