The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel

Author:Robert Scoble & Shel Israel [Scoble, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Patrick Brewster Press
Published: 2016-12-07T06:00:00+00:00

The device contains a fisheye camera that enables motion tracking and a depth sensor that emits infrared signals that reflect back so that the device precisely understands the room’s geometry. Working with the Tango software stack, the phone understands location without using GPS, Wi-Fi or beacons, all of which are less accurate.

According to Larry Yang, lead project manager, these features provide large-scale 3D pattern recognition while users are in motion, which current headsets can’t yet accomplish.

At the partner kiosks, we measured a couch with ease and speed, then zapped virtual targets with Tango attached to a plastic gun. We watched live raptors as visitors to the New York Museum of Natural History will see them in front of reconstructed skeletons. The Tango Toybox featured several home entertainment selections including AR dominoes that could be played on real home furnishings and an AR puppy that was excessively cute.

All of these applications show the diverse ways that Tango phones can be used. Instead of dinosaurs in a museum, a toy department could have virtual critters greeting kids as they shop, or they could borrow a toy gun and shoot virtual aliens.

If Tango were just a software app, we think that it would be wildly successful. But, while we enjoyed the demos we explored, we wondered if they were enough for people to buy a new $500 phone. Might they prefer to keep their existing phone and enjoy similar experiences in, say, a Google Daydream headset selling for under $100?

We saw the greatest promise in partnerships and in two compelling use cases that may catapult Tango handsets forward with activities that you can’t yet do with headsets: remodeling and mapping.

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