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Lenovo Is Making the First Google Project Tango Phone
- interdrift 11y agoShould I expect any gratuit spyware with it too?
- crncosta 11y agoDefinitively.
- jlgaddis 11y agoIf so, it'll likely be much harder to detect as Lenovo could just have Google's CA sign their cert instead of creating their own (untrusted) CA.
- quantumpotato_ 11y agoWhich is a reminder to us all that the Certificate "Authority" system is broken..
- bitL 11y ago..by design
- magicalist 11y agoIf that had been the issue, they could have gotten the superfish certificate signed by anyone. You don't exactly need an inside man to get an SSL cert these days.
- anc84 11y agoIt's a Google project so yes, I guess you should.
- on_and_off 11y agoTango is pretty cool, but is supposed to be the consumer application of this tech ?
- digi_owl 11y agoHard to say what people may come up with. the original Tango demo showed things like measuring distance between two points in free space simply by point the camera at each in turn, or taking a look at a life sized car by walking around it. Potentially you could have an app that allowed you to see how a sofa would fit in a room before you buy it. We are talking about a device that fits in your pocket and can be away of where it is in relation to everything else in a room. I think it is one of those things that needs to be out there for a while for people to play with before we can say if it has any potential or not.
- amatic 11y agoDon't know what is the intended application, but one possible use is industrial object recognition and localization - add a robot arm and you can start making a pick-and-place machine.
- moron4hire 11y agoinside-out positional tracking for VR headsets, i.e. no external tracker, completely untethered. The current Samsung GearVR and all of the Google Cardboard setups can only do orientation. The accelerometer data isn't accurate enough to integrate to a position (several people, including myself, have tried).
- RankingMember 11y agoKind of what I was thinking. Even the guys working on it in the video couldn't come up with much beyond "help assist blind people by sensing the environment" and "testing out furniture placement in your apartment"..."The possibilities are endless!". That said, it's hard to discount the potential impact of new tech before it's been in the wild for a few years at least. There could be some wacky mad scientist developer who comes out of nowhere and finds some novel use for it.
- gerty 11y agoWhat about Project Ara? When is it coming to fruition?
- psbp 11y agoThey were set to do a limited launch in Puerto Rico in late 2015, but they've delayed to 2016, possibly in other markets.
- pilsetnieks 11y agoSo how many phone projects does Google have now? Nexus, Silver, Ara, and now Tango?
- t3f 11y agoShould one count Fi as part of a Phone Project?
- psbp 11y agoSilver is dead.
- r00fus 11y agoFor anyone who was wondering what Silver was: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/16/6248561/google-android-silver-reportedly-on-hold http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/16/6248561/google-android-sil... "The oft-rumored Android Silver program was supposed to showcase the best smartphones running Android as Google intended it."
- razster 11y agoAt this point, I don't believe I would pick up another google service because sooner or later they're going to close it down.
- fantunes 11y agoEverytime I read lenovo my mind automatically translates it to superfish.
- darkmarmot 11y agoWait, I thought Lenovo was automatically translated to 'Lizard People'?
- venomsnake 11y agoThat is before the MITM attack
- razster 11y agoAnd then you add Google on top of this and you have a phone with open ears and eyes.
- tonetheman 11y agospyware phone. super bad choice from google
- lern_too_spel 11y agoMy guess is that this is the Motorola Mobility division that Lenovo recently purchased as opposed to Lenovo proper.
- tonetheman 11y agoYup you are probably correct. I just have a hard time now because I associate lenovo with spyware. Ah well.
- kriro 11y agoSo theoretically a Tango phone should be capable of AR simply by looking at stuff through it (no dedicated AR browser and the like)?
- oneJob 11y agosoftware spyware and hardware spyware champs team up!
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoThe biggest use case for depth sensors on a phone are Augmented Reality applications. We have been playing with a Tango for a while, but quite frankly I was disappointed with it's tracking capability compared to what we can achieve with a standard RGB phone camera within our own application. We think we are at the point that we can do 3D reconstruction and ranging as well, and as quickly, with commodity RGB hardware and vSLAM, as you can get from depth cameras in 95% of the environments.
- miguelrochefort 11y agoNo, the biggest use case for depth sensors on a phone is a 3D scanning. You'll be able to scan your Xbox or coffee table, it will identify it, and then you can do anything with that reference: - List it on Craigslist (with detailed specs) - Review it on Amazon - Download the User's Manual - Browse related accessories - Request support - Etc. and you'll then be able to sell it on Craigslist or eBay in one click (including a relatively complete description with specs). Think of it as an alternative to barcodes or RFIDs for things with unique and solid shapes.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoDisagree first, because we can do that without depth sensors, so no it isn't necessary. You can already scan objects with 123D Catch from Autodesk. We can do dense RGB pointclouds from an iPhone from as little as 14 images: http://staging.pair3d.com/pointcloud/couch.html http://staging.pair3d.com/pointcloud/couch.html Also disagree slightly with your use case. For the amount of work it takes to get a quality 3D scan of something, even with a good IR depth system the benefit isn't there for the user. Besides, the ecosystem you describe relies much more on a robust segmentation system with very well trained data set. You can do that easier and better with a single or multiple pictures than you can with a 3D scan.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoSo sad this was the use case thought of. Forget about scanning something to sell it. Think about scanning something and sending it off with an app to be printed and shipped to you.
- HillaryBriss 11y agoIt's somewhat experimental. Developers that buy the Tango Dev kit and invest the time to learn it and build something share a significant part of the cost/risk. Is there any guarantee from Google+Lenovo that this will actually be released to end consumers?