It’s been an Augmented Reality (AR) heavy week with the launch of AR Stickers and now a new ARCore Developer Preview has launched. Google has also just ended support for Tango, their initial AR offering which required devices with more sensors. After launching ARCore in its initial Developer Preview form …
Read More »There’s now an ARCore app on Google Play – try it now
Google’s launch of ARCore last week has opened up the doors to wide-spread adoption of Augmented Reality on millions, potentially billions of devices world wide. The first app supporting ARCore is available now on Google Play. The app is Atom Visualizer for ARCore Preview and as you’d expect from the …
Read More »Asus is bringing a Snapdragon 821-powered Tango phone to CES 2017
As was rumoured back in November, Asus looks set to release their own AR device powered by Google’s Tango and a Snapdragon 821 processor. Asus originally teased a new device would be coming powered by the current mobile powerhouse SOC the 821. Following that, Qualcomm accidently released a press release …
Read More »Moto Z To Get Tango Functionality
The Moto Z is an amazing phone. Great software, amazing battery life and innovative mods to add functionality to it. Now it is set to get even better with news coming out of Moto that it may be getting a Moto Mod that will add Tango functionality to it. Speaking …
Read More »All the latest news about Tango this week
Tango, formerly known as Project Tango, is what appears to be a very exciting project by Google that uses computer vision to enable mobile devices to detect their position relative to the world around them. This allows for apps such as indoor navigation, 3D mapping, augmented reality and windows into …
Read More »Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro is ready to Tango out to customers on November 1st
It’s been almost 5 months since we went hands-on with Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro, the first ever Tango-enabled smartphone. Since then the hotly anticipated handset has had a few setbacks and it doesn’t look as if we will be seeing the device come to our shores. If you were still …
Read More »Lenovo is making an Android compatible Blaster, possibly a VR/AR accessory
You read the headline correctly, Lenovo has just put a “mostly Android compatible” Bluetooth Blaster Controller through the FCC. That’s right Android peeps. we’re getting arms! Seriously the gamepad-style pistol controller looks to be the perfect VR/ AR companion, and as such we’rethinking that it’s either intended for Tango or …
Read More »The worlds first Tango phone, the Lenovo Phab2PRO won’t launch in Australia, now delayed in the US
The worlds first consumer Tango phone, the Phab2PRO, which Lenovo announced at their Tech World event back in June won’t be coming to Australia, Lenovo announced. For fans of the Tango phone in the US there’s further bad news with the phone launch delayed. Google’s Tango platform uses an array …
Read More »Australian hands on with the world’s first consumer Tango phone – the Lenovo Phab2Pro
This morning, Google and Lenovo took the wraps of the worlds first Project Tango phone, announcing the Lenovo Phab2Pro. They dropped the Project, so it’s just a Tango phone now as you can see from the new logo on the rear of the phone. I’m here in San Francisco for …
Read More »Nat and Lo learn to Tango
Google’s Nat and Lo, who originally started their video series as their 20% project, have this week taken us for an inside look at Project Tango. Hot off the heels of Lenovo’s Tango Phone announcement, we get a behind the scene look at what the Tango team have been working on. …
Read More »Google cuts price of 3D-Mapping Tango tablet in half – promises international availability coming soon
Google has been slowly moving on their developer focused, 3D mapping ‘Tango’ tablet since announcing it back in June last year. The tablet appeared on Google Play last year, but an invite was still required to buy the tablet, and still is, but maybe not for much longer. According to …
Read More »Alibaba takes a strategic $590 Million investment in Chinese smartphone maker Meizu
Alibaba is dabbling into the smartphone market with, what the company is calling “a strategic investment” in fellow Chinese smartphone maker, Meizu. The NYSE-listed e-commerce company made the announcement via a statement to the marketplace that it had bought a $590 Million “minority” share in the Guangdong-based Meizu, which has sold more than 1.5 …
Read More »Project Tango tablets arrive on Google Play in the US – listed as ‘Coming Soon’
Google’s Project Tango, from Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects(ATAP) group is a project which aims to use a combination of specially built hardware and customised Android builds to make 3D maps of the real world. A phone was announced when Tango was first unveiled, but it’s the Tango tablet which …
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