Project Tango: an augmented reality computing platform
SDK and Android application development for Google's Project Tango, with ROS integrations shared as open source.
- Sector
- Mobile augmented reality
- Platform
- Google Tango · Android
- Contribution
- SDK · Applications · ROS integration
The challenge
Project Tango was an augmented reality computing platform developed by Google. It used computer vision to enable mobile devices to detect their position relative to the world around them without using GPS or other external signals. This allowed application developers to create user experiences that include indoor navigation, 3D mapping, physical space measurement, environmental recognition, augmented reality, and windows into a virtual world.
Our contribution
We supported the team at Google in developing the Tango SDK and various Tango Android Applications and its rollout on industrial scale.
The result
We sped up the development of the team at Google by providing key expertise. Tango pivoted to become ARcore, the AR computing platform on Android devices. The Tango and ARcore integrations with ROS we created on the side are publicly available at https://github.com/Intermodalics/tango_ros