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AFTER ANNOUNCING IT’S working on developing smart contact lenses and robotics, Google’s next project is a new phone that will be able to create a 3D map of a room while you’re there.
The phone, codenamed Project Tango and developed by Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group, has 3D sensors built into the phone, allowing it to make 250,000 3D measurements every second.
It uses this data to update the position and orientation of the phone and uses that data to create a 3D model of the space around you.
The applications for such technology would begin with indoor mapping, but could be used for other purposes such as gaming, allowing the visually-impaired make their way through unfamiliar indoor places, and measuring objects and spaces.
Part of the technology used comes from Irish company Movidius, which develops vision processor technology for mobile devices. Its Myriad 1 vision processor is used to power Project Tango as well as future models.
Google ATAP has been working with universities, research labs and industrial partners in nine countries to help develop the technology.
The company currently has 200 prototype development kits for use in areas such as navigation, gaming and sensor data, but the project is open to anyone with unique ideas for the technology as well.
(Video: Google ATAP/YouTube)
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What is the attraction of seeing a ginger love child and a divorcee??
@Pixie McMullen: Yaaaaaawwwn. Waffle
@Pixie McMullen: Your comment doesn’t represent the majority of Irish. It was irrelevant and extremely bitter because it takes an irrelevant and bitter person to write it.
@Gareth Cooney: I think it does represent the majority of people in this country. A rich boy and a b list actress visiting an empty GAA pitch. It’s like a comedy spoof.
A minor Royal and an American actress with a drama show for a family….nah!
Move along, nothing to see here….
@Dotty Dunleary: He should be arrested for his wedding gift from his mother which was the Mountains of Mourne in Co. Down, illegal actions in Ireland.
@difference: are you serious!? How can she gift him a mountain if that’s the case I’m claiming it
@Thomas Harrington: Have you got an army to back you? if so feel free. Not the whole mountain but the ancient kindom of Mourne was claimed. The Windsor family should be run out.
@difference: How could his mother gift him anything.
@James Darby: His Granny pardon me!
@difference: Nahh….The Royals seemed pretty ok with me being in the Hills of Mourne last time I took a walk there…
@Thomas Harrington: you can’t claim it its his
2 tourists come from my homeland to Ireland- big deal, they are unelected & have billions because of imperialism and the class system in England.
I respect the way Irish people can be so forgiving, but I don’t see them or any other human as above anyone else, titles are ridiculous unless they are earned (Dr, Scientist etc).
Howard Gayle (ex Football player) refused a knighthood due to the class system and the Monarchs role in slavery, he’s more charisma and dignity than any Royal, Sir or Lord!
Id rather watch paint dry.
Harry and Meghan nothing personal but not my cup of anything
Why are M S M shoving this down our throat?
@David Walshe: sucking up more like it
A load of nonsense. I wouldn’t cross the road to see any British royal.
@munsterman: Id cross the road to avoid one.
@munsterman: That’s possibly why the come here. Remember when a U.S. thought we didn’t kmow who Beyoncé and Jay-Z were? It’s because we don’t give a S#1t
Does everyone on this planet have Irish connections. We sure seem to have gotten around the place alright.
Well, I’m incandescent with indifference, do we really care??? so long as they don’t sign on.
I hope they have a great time but id rather keep up with the pollen forecast.
No I don’t know them – they are just a strangers holiday
@Benjamin Shéamuis De Brugha: lt just happens that harry’s granny owns half the globe.
@Sean Conway: __ The only globe that she owns has got a bulb inside it that lights up when she plugs it in.
Enjoy your trip to a republic, here we meet as equals, we do engage in monarchical wishy wash.
@enda dirrane: *we don’t engage in
All the royal lover’s tongues will be in flitters after all the licking they’ve done in the last few weeks.
Monarchies are so last millennium
@Ooby Dooby: there are still 10 in Europe. And their societies are more equal than ours.
Will he be wearing all the medals he got for serving in the middle east. or his nazi uniform.
One likes to leave that sort of think to the lower classes..
People won’t have a choice with the amount of articles the journal will write
you know…in case you missed last-week’s poll.
@Matt Connolly: …and of course I votes “Yes”. Twice.
Who invited them here.not a word about that.name and shame
Iv been touching myself all morning just thinking about it lol
Will they not be visiting that lick ass who works in the English market in Cork??
Enjoy
No interest in the Hewitt family!
Nope I’ve no reason to as there here for a holiday so let them enjoy it without feeling like a piece of meat.
Who?
Two pampered kids from two different countries, If they start singing or doing an act on grafton street or elsewhere I might stop for a few seconds. What’s their talent?
No. I have my own life to get on with.
No disrespect to the people involved but we are a republic, means your welcome but not buying it !
Too busy Hosing my lawn (o wait a minute)……
Zero bleeps
Unless Meghan is wearing a bikini out my back garden then no
What time are they saying mass in the Park ?
Didn’t even know they were popping over until I read this article.
James Connolly in 1911: What is monarchy? From whence does it derive its sanction? What has been its gift to humanity? Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history. It derives its only sanction from the sword of the marauder, and the helplessness of the producer, and its gifts to humanity are unknown, save as they can be measured in the pernicious examples of triumphant and shameless iniquities.
Media types and politicians fawning over these people in a Republic, even one of opportunists, is nauseating. Or Chee Eee are all over it to make it more popular than it should be.
I wonder how many of the same people whining about the cost of the popes visit think nothing of footing the bill for the visit of these two?
Well, I am a celebrity and royalty for my kids usually when I buy them something. I do not mind spending on them as they are mine, I brought them here and I am the one responsible for them.
Who is that Harry and Meghan again? What did they give to me or anyone else in this country?
Who?
Bucks Palace says Diana Irish decent
@Aidan Augustus Daly: Che Guevara more likely.
I’d rather sandpaper me hole
No, the twelfth will be on.
This is an official visit.
I didn’t see the press whooping it up when this couple made an unofficial visit a few weeks back to the Mullingar area ?
I am interested in what colour tie, if any tie, the Taoiseach’s partner will wear at some official reception or other. Otherwise, I’ll be cheering for les bleus sur la television. En marche, les gars!
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