Seems like Tango is successfully moving out of AR for video games/education and into general machine vision SDKs and tools for the industrial/enterprise realm. Good stuff.
2 questions: (1) will Google go back to selling hardware (Glass), and (2) will Google acquire Unity before Microsoft/Apple/Facebook does?
I would bet for Google getting back to consumer augmented reality hardware once timing is right. I think the wearables will be something where they want to produce their own hardware to manage all the details.
For me the biggest problem is how to build and market the product so that they don't end up with the same problems as with Glass. For example one quite obvious and useful feature would be recall information about people as you meet them, but it's not so easy to think about a product that enables this kind of functionality without creating a public backslash.
Google just has so many interesting pieces for the AR puzzle. Tango to make sense of 3d space and Google Lens about 2d. Knowledge graph gives information about world and from Gmail and Calendar they can mine my personal data. As always with Google, privacy will be issue for some people, but I think enough are going to accept the tradeoff between privacy and convenience.
Is there public information on how big share of Magic Leap Google owns? There were some reports that Google led one of the investment rounds, but I can't remember seeing actual figures.
I believe their new standalone VR unit uses tango technology to map out the surroundings (WorldSense) thereby negating the need for externally mounted peripherals like those needed for by room scale VR.
I could see a swat team throwing one or more of these into a room and letting them report back its contents. Teach them to crawl and fly and you'd have a build mapped in no time.
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[ 0.27 ms ] story [ 39.4 ms ] threadI found the room emptying and re-lighting demo to be particularly impressive.
Tango will be used for many good things, exciting future in that regard!
2 questions: (1) will Google go back to selling hardware (Glass), and (2) will Google acquire Unity before Microsoft/Apple/Facebook does?
For me the biggest problem is how to build and market the product so that they don't end up with the same problems as with Glass. For example one quite obvious and useful feature would be recall information about people as you meet them, but it's not so easy to think about a product that enables this kind of functionality without creating a public backslash.
Google just has so many interesting pieces for the AR puzzle. Tango to make sense of 3d space and Google Lens about 2d. Knowledge graph gives information about world and from Gmail and Calendar they can mine my personal data. As always with Google, privacy will be issue for some people, but I think enough are going to accept the tradeoff between privacy and convenience.
Is there public information on how big share of Magic Leap Google owns? There were some reports that Google led one of the investment rounds, but I can't remember seeing actual figures.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap#/entity