Why trust Greenbotnovo announced plans Thursday night in s Vegas for the first oject Tango phone to be released this summer for less than $500.
oject Tango is ’s vision to bring augmented reality to phones by enabling devices to be able to sense where they are what is around them. During the announcement, ’s ny demonstrated measuring a room using a prototype oject Tango tablet then shopping at wes for furniture that would fit it.
also showed off a oject Tango app augmented reality virtual cat dog roaming the room too.
One application demonstrated on Thursday was a virtual pet that roamed a room on the screen of the company’s oject Tango prototype tablet.
novo was sparse on details but said it would integrate a fisheye, an RGB, depth sensing camera into the phone to enable the ability for its phone to sense its surroundings. The industrial design of the novo oject Tango-enabled phone hasn’t been set but novo’s ff Meredith said it would be no bigger than 6.5-inches. Meredith also said it would be launched worldwide this “summer” be powered by an Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
’s also announced an app incubator program invited people to submit ideas. Showing the urgency of ’s oject Tango though, ideas would only be accepted until Feb. 15, 2016.
That’s likely to insure there’s software to actually make the novo oject Tango phone useful when released just months later.
novo says the first oject Tango phone wil be smaller than 6.5 inches could look like this.
