Google has unveiled a new
phone that makes real-time, 3-D maps of its environments. Its “customized
hardware and software” includes sensors that gives it the capability to make
over a quarter of a million measurements every second. Its uses could include
indoor mapping and navigation assistance for the visually-impaired.
“We are physical beings that live in a 3-D
world,” Google says. “Yet, our mobile devices assume that physical world ends
at the boundaries of the screen.”
A prototype of the device, developed by Google’s
Advanced Technology and Projects unit under a venture called Project Tango, is
being offered to 200 developers interested in making apps for the phone.
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