The ambitious new technology, which Lenovo just launched on a consumer phone for the first time, could make for a "better blue dot" on Google Maps. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, ...

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Today Google announced Project Tango, delivered first as a smartphone that's able to scan the world around it in real time. This phone knows its position in space in real time using a variety of ...

When Google sold Motorola, it quietly retained the most interesting part: The Advanced Technology and Projects Group, otherwise known as ATAP. And now, we’re getting whiff of what Google’s futuristic ...

Google hopes Tango will support a system for independent developers to create new virtual reality applications and services. San Francisco: Google already maps the world, but the internet giant has ...

Google’s new Project Tango is a limited-run experimental phone that’ll be handed out to 200 lucky developers next month. It’s got Kinect-like vision and a revolutionary chipset, enabling phones to see ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google already maps the world, but the internet giant has bigger plans for its next location-based technology. The Alphabet unit wants to digitally map the interiors of buildings in ...

Google has just unveiled Project Tango, a smartphone with built-in 3D computer vision technology. Think of it as a smartphone with built-in Kinect functionality -- but rather than enable Leap-like ...

A good few projects in Google’s wheelhouse managed to garner huge excitement, only to mostly go quiet, pumping out little bits of information on their progress every few months. Project Tango is one ...

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