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The Project Tango Development Kit from Google’s experimental Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division is reportedly slated to release in this year. The technology from Google enables phone users to scan everything around the user in 3 dimensional directions.

The scanner began as a concept for a smartphone to scan the things in 3D, but this technology can be used for augmented reality or direct people to important things.

According to the belfasttelegraph report, that the project’s official page said, technology tracks people through a combination of “advanced computer vision, image processing and specialized sensors”. It is built into the back of a tablet, which can show the results on the front.

It could also help visually impaired people by providing assistance for walking around. We concept can be implemented in gaming applications and allowing children to play hide and seek with animated characters or changing familiar locations into the sites of other animations. Google is said to be working with LG to make a version of the technology that people can buy ready for release some time this year.

The innovative technology allows other engineers and technocrats to make apps using this Project Tango technology. That has been used in projects such as Target’s augmented reality app, which scanned shop shelves and covered them in virtual snow.

-Kannamsai