Why trust Greenbot‘s oject Tango isn’t a real product yet. It’s a science project.
Using advanced cameras, sensors, processors, oject Tango aims to allow phones tablets to record a 3D view of the world around them, underst their precise location orientation in it.
announced a developer tablet powered by Nividia’s Tegra K1 chip almost a year ago, but access was by invitation only. A month ago, made it a little more widely available, dropped the price in half (from $1024 to $512— loves developer inside jokes like power-of-two numbers).
Now, you can buy the development tablet direct from the Store, with no invitation needed.
The story behind the story: This is either moving off excess inventory, or preparing to push this project further into the mainstream by “priming the pump” with development projects. If tablets featuring the oject Tango technology are to go on sale this holiday season, or early next year, there will need to be hundreds of developers working on software to take advantage of the technology.
may hear more about oject Tango I/O this week.
