Google has tied up with Lenovo to manufacture the first smartphone using 3D mapping technology.
Google is about to enter the smartphone market. The search engine developer and Chinese multinational company, Lenovo, said Thursday that they would collaborate to manufacture the first smartphone using 3D mapping made for Google’s "Project Tango."
The tie up proclaimed on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas would allow manufacturing of the first consumer product using the technology aimed for the future generation of smart products, such as augmented reality, indoor mapping and more.
Google stated the product that was not displayed would be a large screen smartphone with around 15 centimeters (6 inches) display that cost less than $500. The Tango Phone, which would be launched in the middle of the year, would also be marking the first significant entrance into the American smartphone market for Lenovo.
Vice President of the Beijing based organization, Jeff Meredith, said, "This was not designed as a niche device. We want this to be accessible to a large audience." Google proclaimed its research venture last year aimed at extending the smartphone technology’s capacity in a 3D world. Until now, the only product making use of Tango was a heavy tablet manufactured by the technology giant for developers.
Leader of Project Tango, Johnny Lee, who joined the announcement in Las Vegas, stated the technology "transforms the smartphone into a magical window on the world." Johnny, who demonstrated technology’s different uses, further claimed it could help customers in precisely measuring room before buying furniture or find a path for users in a big mall or hotel.
He demonstrated the means by which square footage, ceiling height and more could be measured and then conducted a test to find out how some furniture pieces will appear in a room. Project Tango utilizes motion tracking and depth sensing for the creation of on-screen 3D experiences, permitting users to get better picture of physical environment.
"There is much more in the space around us that we can see with our eyes," Lee stated. Unlike GPS, the motion tracking employed by Project Tango works indoors, allowing users to conduct navigation in a shopping center, or even succeed in finding a particular product at the store.
Jeff stated Lenovo was still conducting a test of many designs for the product but will "definitely" release in the mid of next year. Google also announced an "app incubator program" to persuade developers to develop new softwares for the ecosystem.
In other news, CNBC has recently reported that Google wants to recruit over 50 people in China from communications managers to software engineers as it is looking to reenter the most populated country.
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