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Google Is Waiting For New Project Tango Ideas From All Interested Developers

Google Is Waiting For New Project Tango Ideas From All Interested Developers

Mary Cris Balancio

Google is looking for great minds and creative ideas again! The giant tech company is calling for all interested software developers to submit all their creative ideas on utility and game applications based on Google's Project Tango computer-vision technology.

Those who submit their ideas and manage to catch the tech giant's attention will receive the engineering support and funding they will need to bring their ideas into fruition and to the market in an expeditious fashion.

Additionally, Technical Project Lead Johnny Lee said in a blog post that those who manage to stand out will have their submitted applications featured on Lenovo's recently announced Project Tango smartphone, which will be made available later this year. According to Lee's blog post, developers need to just submit their ideas and explain how the Project Tango technologies will bring forth new experiences.

With this announcement, Google hopes to see developers who are interested in submitting their ideas to include a project schedule, visual mock-ups of these great ideas, smartphone app screenshots, storyboard and other necessary details needed. The tech company also wants the developers to provide any company detail they have and information regarding their past application development experience.

The submission of ideas is open to all, though there is a deadline to consider, which is Feb. 15. Google promises to get back to all those developers by March 15 to let them know whether or not they made the cut.

Project Tango technology is Google's project in partnership with Chinese tech company Lenovo. This technology gives a handphone device the ability to move within the physical world a bit similarly to how human beings do. This Google project also brings a new kind of perception to the Android device platform by adding advanced computer vision, special vision sensors and image processing.

In simpler terms, Project Tango takes depth perception, motion tracking and what the tech giant calls "area learning" to make smartphones and other devices more spatial capable. Currently, Google offers a Project Tango development kit that is composed of an Android device, a wide-angle camera, a depth-sensing camera, a sensor and software.

This kit enables developers to explore how to take advantage of Project Tango to enable navigation without GPS, create virtual 3D worlds, measure and scan spaces and create game apps that will be capable of detecting their surroundings. So far, the kits proved to be popular as Google has reported that thousands of these kits have already been purchased by developers all over the world and are using them to develop Project Tango enabled apps.

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