Google Launches 'Project Tango' 3D-Mapping Smartphone

[herr_neumann]

Seems like you could just add a second camera, add focal distance to the metadata and stream the video/photo feed to a cloud server for the heavy lifting of the 3d calculations. I have been wondering why Amazon hasn't done this with the kindle for a while. No more guessing if clothes will fit, use the kindle to make a 3d model and know they will fit.

 

[gatearray]

I honestly would be pretty impressed if they could upload large amounts of data using only consumer wifi and mobile data into the Google complex without anybody noticing.

That's what Google Fiber is for, free high-speed internet... it'll only cost you your soul! 😱

So I look through the posts in this thread to see a bunch of people complaining about how this idea is dumb and useless, and it's such an invasion of privacy because Google will know things about your life. Why are they saying these thing? Because this is a Google made thing. That means all the fan boys will bitch about how they don't like it. If apple was working on this, you'd see a lot more comments about how this idea is so perfect and brilliant, and all the fan boys would be talking about how the wanted to get one asap. And this being an invasion of privacy? If you have a 5S, they have your fingerprints. But of course the fan boys chose to ignore any bad things about their God Apple......

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This is true fan boy talk of someone coming to the defense of apple. What is non innovative about google products? Past and present? And what is so innovative about Apple's products? Answer me that

Zzzzz...

 

[AppleInTheMud]

You mean Apple isn't announcing as many half-baked and nonexistent products?

He was right. When did Apple last give something to us that was really stunning? They just release the same and the same and the same with little to none improvements.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE APPLE and I own almost everything. But can't remeber the last something WOOOWWWW new came from Apple.

I stick to Apple... But not because it still is wooowwww and ground breaking. It works and I like that 🙂 And it looks good. My ego buys Apple nowadays. Not my common sence

 

[ryanasimov]

The guy at the beginning is the person who got pretty big Youtube fame from creating head-tracking by reversing the Wii hardware, right?

http://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw

 

[Mukist]

Nice

This sounds like a criminal's dream come true, mapping the inside of buildings. Now I know exactly where the weakest point of entry is. Sweet.😕😕😕

 

[A MacBook lover]

He was right. When did Apple last give something to us that was really stunning? They just release the same and the same and the same with little to none improvements.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE APPLE and I own almost everything. But can't remeber the last something WOOOWWWW new came from Apple.

I stick to Apple... But not because it still is wooowwww and ground breaking. It works and I like that 🙂 And it looks good. My ego buys Apple nowadays. Not my common sence

iPod 2001 - 13 Years ago. Wowed.
iPhone 2007 - 7 Years ago. Wowed.
iPad 2010 - 4 Years ago. Wowed.

iWatch - In progress - possible wow
iTV - In progress - possible wow

 

[IJ Reilly]

This is what I was going to say. Why make a special phone to do this? The tech could just be in a standalone product, designed to do it the best it can. Rather than in a phone, which will certainly be a compromise since its first purpose is not "3D scanner".

Or its second, third, or fourth purpose. It's a technology cram.

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how is that new pages working out for you?🙂

The key words are "as many." (Not using the new Pages. At least I was able to stick to the one that works.)

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He was right. When did Apple last give something to us that was really stunning? They just release the same and the same and the same with little to none improvements.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE APPLE and I own almost everything. But can't remeber the last something WOOOWWWW new came from Apple.

I stick to Apple... But not because it still is wooowwww and ground breaking. It works and I like that 🙂 And it looks good. My ego buys Apple nowadays. Not my common sence

When was the last time Google gave us something really stunning? The main difference is Google releases products aren't finished or announces products that don't actually exist. If that's what makes you happy, I'm sure Apple could have thrilled you ten times over in the space of time it took Google to "give us" Glass and Project Tango.

 

[MellowFuzz]

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If there's a company in the world that loves to be evil, it's Google. At least Batman had the decency to let Lucius destroy it.

 

[Todd B.]

There better be a CLEAR way for non-users AND users to opt-out of this or the government needs to step in and regulate/break up Google NOW. 😡

I also love the people who are all like "oh, Google is so innovative and Apple isn't" yet fail to realize that Google talks a lot but never DOES anything.... they wouldn't even get attention if tech blogs didn't fawn all over every time they sneeze.

Am I the only one starting to think that Google is genuinely innovative, and Apple is not?

Glass, Loon, and now this, have all popped up within a short time frame, and all have the potential to change things dramatically.

What's Apple done within the same time frame? Besides the usual refreshes / updates to their usual lineup.

There's nothing innovative about vapourware.....

 

[epollyon]

no!

out with the future, in with the past. bring back the floppy and the vacuums!

 

[BigMovieGeek]

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If it's follow The Dark Knight closely, do NOT type Lucius Fox into Google!

 

[slffl]

I swear Macrumors has more non-Apple stories than Apple ones these days. Does Arnold Kim still own this joint? Because it sure seems it's not being run the way it used to be.

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Also, How exactly is this different or better than the iSense for the iPad?

 

[tevion5]

Google is by far the most interesting and exciting tech company right now. Apple looks dinosaur like in comparison. Kinda like Microsoft did in the 2000s.

Google is like a group of stoned guys in college! They keep dreaming up all these great ideas and bring virtually none of it to the market!

Apple releases everything it mentions. If it isn't picked for release, they don't blab about it.

It's not that I don't think that they have some good ideas, but if they don't implement them well then they aren't "innovative".

 

[Jess13]

Dear Subject,

The N.S.A. encourages you to use this product.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

1984

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

I love this idea, but knowing Google, they'll completely screw it up like they did with Google Glass and their Chrome TVs. The only thing Google has ever done right is Search, and honestly, I moved on to better search engines from them (DuckDuckGo).

The only people that should be afraid of Google (and the NSA) information gathering are terrorists and pedophiles, so if you don't count yourself part of either or those groups there is nothing to worry about.

But honestly there must be a lot of pedophiles and terrorists out there the way people always complain about this stuff.

WRONG!

Nobody is immune to being hacked - not the NSA, not Google, nobody. It's not a matter of if but when. Someday, everything the NSA or Google knows about you will be known by criminals all over the world. They'll know the names of your kids, the school they go to, and a list of IDs for your friends (they got your friends from G+ and the IDs from the NSA.) They find the one they look most like, go to the school, and take your kid.

I can spell out countless other creepy things that can happen once hackers have your data.

Even supposing that hackers can't break in from the outside, what makes you think the NSA and Google aren't compromised by people working on the inside? Since you don't seem to mind that the NSA has your data, you would consider Snowden to be a bad person, and yet he was working in the NSA. What makes you think there aren't others? (Personally, I consider Snowden a hero.)

Your failure to worry about what the NSA does is equivalent to not worrying if the police break into your house and rummage through all your stuff. Even if they find nothing, they're still harassing you. It's why we have the amendment preventing them from doing that in the US (the number escapes me right now.)

 

[lovewd]

iPod 2001 - 13 Years ago. Wowed.
iPhone 2007 - 7 Years ago. Wowed.
iPad 2010 - 4 Years ago. Wowed.

iWatch - In progress - possible wow
iTV - In progress - possible wow

So Apple had 3 "wows"- all at least 3 years apart. And also, the ipad isn't as a big of a "wow" as you think buddy

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Dear Subject,

The N.S.A. encourages you to use this product.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

1984

Because the NSA is a google only thing. They never ever go after info from people with iDevices....not even their fingerprints......

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There better be a CLEAR way for non-users AND users to opt-out of this or the government needs to step in and regulate/break up Google NOW. 😡

I also love the people who are all like "oh, Google is so innovative and Apple isn't" yet fail to realize that Google talks a lot but never DOES anything.... they wouldn't even get attention if tech blogs didn't fawn all over every time they sneeze.



There's nothing innovative about vapourware.....

Tell me what are all these things that google talks about but fails to produce. I'd really like to know

 

[Carlanga]

I want to tango my apartment, hate giving directions to the bathroom lol


Cool concept/idea, now that is innovating, not like samsung

 

[sparkso]

and then why not live in the 3D map you created

 

[KdParker]

Ok, I watched the video two times and cant see why? You can make games using your enviorment and see how furniture fits your home. And then what? What is the idea? What is the purpose?

Like Google or not. This is a new refreshing innovation that could extend the use of our phones.

I say 'COULD' because there have been several ideas that have incredible potential that just seemed to stall. (ie the technology behind xbox connect)

I hope this isn't one of those ideas.

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Dear Subject,

The N.S.A. encourages you to use this product.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

1984

dude....do you really think the NSA cares what you are doing 🙂

 

[mdelvecchio]

What exactly does this have to do with MacRumors?

did ya guys see the part where they talked about a company Apple acquired that does something similar? or did you miss that? could hint at future features.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

This could be supremely useful in design & engineering, once it's about a hundred thousand times more accurate than it is now.

But I don't want it in my life.

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do you really think the NSA cares what you are doing 🙂

Then why record and store everything?

Today, maybe not. Tomorrow...

 

[carmenodie]

I said it before and I'm saying it again, Brin and Page are operatives for the CIA and the Mossad. I swear this **** is well disguised , government backed surveillance tech.
Google has the hood mapped to the very last liquor store now they want to map my crib?
OMFG!

 

[batchtaster]

I honestly would be pretty impressed if they could upload large amounts of data using only consumer wifi and mobile data into the Google complex without anybody noticing.

Do you notice your iCloud Backups?

 

[the8thark]

Why let it bother you? The vast majority of rumors on here are Apple-centric. It's not like getting the occasional bit of Google/Samsung/Microsoft rumors, (which more often than not are based around products that compete directly with Apple), will taint your soul with their mere presence. If you don't like it, scroll past it.

It does not bother me. I was just stating the facts to someone who asked. That's all. If it bothered me I'd have already moved on.

 

[Matt8045]

It's sad that every time a cool new concept or tech comes out it automatically has to be equated to spying. It's trendy as hell and people are doing it just for the sake of talking like the masses. Most of us will use this technology that people here and everywhere else on the internet bash, for one thing you're all on the internet already which leads me to believe you're not paranoid but just following what's "cool". And right now it's cool to be a paranoid nutjob online. Hopefully this fad dies out soon. The last 2 years online have been extremely annoying. On a side note this is why aliens don't visit us.