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Google Tango – Research Update May 2017

40 points by mr_overalls 9y ago

DocSavage 9y ago
Here's a useful site to understand Tango: https://developers.google.com/tango/developer-overview https://developers.google.com/tango/developer-overview I found the room emptying and re-lighting demo to be particularly impressive.
- ElijahLynn 9y ago
  Room emptying alone will have large impact on the world! Tango will be used for many good things, exciting future in that regard!
- tuyguntn 9y ago
  Second this, room emptying looks impressive, any way to talk with developer or any open source implementing similar thing?
roymurdock 9y ago
Seems like Tango is successfully moving out of AR for video games/education and into general machine vision SDKs and tools for the industrial/enterprise realm. Good stuff. 2 questions: (1) will Google go back to selling hardware (Glass), and (2) will Google acquire Unity before Microsoft/Apple/Facebook does?
- jpalomaki 9y ago
  I would bet for Google getting back to consumer augmented reality hardware once timing is right. I think the wearables will be something where they want to produce their own hardware to manage all the details. For me the biggest problem is how to build and market the product so that they don't end up with the same problems as with Glass. For example one quite obvious and useful feature would be recall information about people as you meet them, but it's not so easy to think about a product that enables this kind of functionality without creating a public backslash. Google just has so many interesting pieces for the AR puzzle. Tango to make sense of 3d space and Google Lens about 2d. Knowledge graph gives information about world and from Gmail and Calendar they can mine my personal data. As always with Google, privacy will be issue for some people, but I think enough are going to accept the tradeoff between privacy and convenience. Is there public information on how big share of Magic Leap Google owns? There were some reports that Google led one of the investment rounds, but I can't remember seeing actual figures.
  - roymurdock 9y ago
    Led the $542M series B, invested in the $800M series C: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap#/entity
- dharma1 9y ago
  Unity is cross-platform, I don't think it would send the right message. I think they can take the company public
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bitmapbrother 9y ago
I believe their new standalone VR unit uses tango technology to map out the surroundings (WorldSense) thereby negating the need for externally mounted peripherals like those needed for by room scale VR.
technofiend 9y ago
I could see a swat team throwing one or more of these into a room and letting them report back its contents. Teach them to crawl and fly and you'd have a build mapped in no time.
dharma1 9y ago
Anyone got a Lenovo Phab 2 Pro? Worth getting one or waiting for a WorldSense headset?

40 points by mr_overalls 9y ago

Here's a useful site to understand Tango: https://developers.google.com/tango/developer-overview https://developers.google.com/tango/developer-overview I found the room emptying and re-lighting demo to be particularly impressive.

ElijahLynn 9y ago
Room emptying alone will have large impact on the world! Tango will be used for many good things, exciting future in that regard!
tuyguntn 9y ago
Second this, room emptying looks impressive, any way to talk with developer or any open source implementing similar thing?

roymurdock 9y ago

Seems like Tango is successfully moving out of AR for video games/education and into general machine vision SDKs and tools for the industrial/enterprise realm. Good stuff. 2 questions: (1) will Google go back to selling hardware (Glass), and (2) will Google acquire Unity before Microsoft/Apple/Facebook does?

jpalomaki 9y ago
I would bet for Google getting back to consumer augmented reality hardware once timing is right. I think the wearables will be something where they want to produce their own hardware to manage all the details. For me the biggest problem is how to build and market the product so that they don't end up with the same problems as with Glass. For example one quite obvious and useful feature would be recall information about people as you meet them, but it's not so easy to think about a product that enables this kind of functionality without creating a public backslash. Google just has so many interesting pieces for the AR puzzle. Tango to make sense of 3d space and Google Lens about 2d. Knowledge graph gives information about world and from Gmail and Calendar they can mine my personal data. As always with Google, privacy will be issue for some people, but I think enough are going to accept the tradeoff between privacy and convenience. Is there public information on how big share of Magic Leap Google owns? There were some reports that Google led one of the investment rounds, but I can't remember seeing actual figures.
- roymurdock 9y ago
  Led the $542M series B, invested in the $800M series C: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap#/entity
dharma1 9y ago
Unity is cross-platform, I don't think it would send the right message. I think they can take the company public
- deleted 9y ago
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bitmapbrother 9y ago

I believe their new standalone VR unit uses tango technology to map out the surroundings (WorldSense) thereby negating the need for externally mounted peripherals like those needed for by room scale VR.

technofiend 9y ago

I could see a swat team throwing one or more of these into a room and letting them report back its contents. Teach them to crawl and fly and you'd have a build mapped in no time.

dharma1 9y ago

Anyone got a Lenovo Phab 2 Pro? Worth getting one or waiting for a WorldSense headset?