Introducing Project Tango: Google's smartphone that would 3D map your entire home

When Google marked its deal to sell Motorola mobility to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, it ensured that the best division of Motorola – its Advanced Technology and Projects group – would be left behind for the Android team. Google’s Advanced Technology & Projects group has now announced Project Tango with the stated objective of giving “mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion”. Project Tango is an Android-based prototype 5-inch phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors, reports Techcrunch. With Project Tango, Google hopes to unlock new kinds of smart, vision-based applications that take advantage of 3D sensing and vision technology that has been preloaded into the phone. The Project Tango devices will be available for developers so they can play around and build apps related to “indoor navigation/mapping, single/multiplayer games that use physical space, and new algorithms for processing sensor data.” However, initially, select 200 developers will be able to access these phones.