Google ‘3D Phone’ Can Map The World Around It

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Google has released a prototype smartphone that can create 3D maps of a user’s surroundings.

The customised hardware and software allows the device’s sensors to make more than 250,000 3D measurements every second.

It updates its position and orientation in real-time, using the data to create a single 3D model of the space around the phone user.

The company believes the technology could be used in various ways, including making it easier for people to navigate unfamiliar buildings, helping blind people to move around, and for immersive indoor gaming.

Professional developers have been asked to submit ideas on the kind of apps they would make using the technology. Google has 200 prototypes to distribute by mid-March.

The company said: “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.” .. see more

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