Google has unveiled Project Tango Tablet Developers’ Kit today. It is pretty much the most badass tablet you can dream of owning so far, and that is putting it mildly.
What is Project Tango?
As we walk through our daily lives, we use visual cues to navigate and understand the world around us. We observe the size and shape of objects and rooms, and we learn their position and layout almost effortlessly over time. This awareness of space and motion is fundamental to the way we interact with our environment and each other. We are physical beings that live in a 3D world. Yet, our mobile devices assume that physical world ends at the boundaries of the screen.
The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.
Our team has been working with universities, research labs, and industrial partners spanning nine countries around the world to build on the last decade of research in robotics and computer vision, concentrating that technology into a unique mobile device. We are putting early prototypes into the hands of developers that can imagine the possibilities and help bring those ideas into reality.
We can’t forget to mention that the Project Tango Tablet also has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE and 4G LTE connectivity (depending on region and carrier, of course). Check out the cool little video they put out about it.
So, who is jumping on the list?
