By Chris Welch on January 7, 2016 09:52 pm Email @chriswelch 16Share on Facebook (123) Tweet Share (46) Pin (2)Project Tango is moving from experiment to a feature that Lenovo hopes will sell phones. Tonight at CES, Lenovo and Google have announced that the former will be the first manufacturer to release a consumer handset with Project Tango built in. And there's already a release date: it's coming this summer. The device will cost under $500 and will launch globally, according to both companies. Also interesting is that Lenovo and Google have said it'll be "less than 6.5 inches" in size. Tango, unveiled nearly two years ago, allows devices to map the 3D space around them in real time using a combination of cameras and sensors. If you need a refresher, here's what Google says its technology can make possible:App developers can transform your home into a game level, or create a magic window into virtual and augmented environments. Project Tango-enabled devices can recognize places they’ve been before, like your living room, the office, or public spaces. Unlike GPS, Project Tango motion tracking works indoors, allowing users to navigate precisely through a shopping mall, or even find a specific item at the store where that information is available. Using the sensor in the device, Project Tango devices can also capture the 3D dimensions of the room, giving measurements that can be used to help you when shopping for furniture or decorations.So that's what you can do with it, and here's what it's like to use it. Developers are invited to submit their best app ideas as part of the Project Tango App Incubator. The best will receive funding and be featured on Lenovo's phone out of the box. We're hoping to get some firsthand impressions of the first-ever consumer Project Tango smartphone before long.this device is of interest; its way out there-but nice to see them move this along
jfiebMemberNewthis device is more than it seems on the surface. I have been waiting and waiting to see one like this…Project Tango motion tracking works indoors, allowing users to navigate precisely through a shopping mall, or even find a specific item at the store where that information is available.its compute intense, you can't dummy it down or it won't know where you are.QUIK IS IN THIS DEVICE or one just about like it. Use this one as a mental model.jfieb, 12 minutes agoEditDeleteReport#17Reply jfiebMemberNewon this snip…I noted the 9 axis claim vs 10 axis claim from QUIK..You need altitude ( 10th axis)+ the 9 axis or you won't know what floor of the building you are on, so it won't know the store you are standing in front of.The compute intensity going from 9 to 10? Its a 30% jump to add that one more into the mix! Nice as its where the EOS can be looking good while the MCU is sucking the batterydown, down down? Furthest to the right on QUIKs deck. THey have been waiting for some adoption of this one. I think we hear more later this yr.THis one or one just about like it.jfieb, 7 minutes agoEditDeleteReport#18Reply jfiebMemberLenovo is making the first consumer phone with Google's Project TangoComing this summer for under $500This thing is Sci Fi to me.Am blown away that this is possible now at this price point.If they do the global release consider the vertical congested parts of the world. If I lived there thats what I would get.
a snip from a job filled a LOOOOOONG time ago now… The following experience is highly desired: Prior experience in the following related areas: indoor positioning systems (using inertial sensors, magnetometers, and pressure sensor, as well as information from wireless local area network, IR and RF transponders, and ultra-wideband (UWB) networks, 2D and 3D active and passive imaging sensors, and map database), simultaneous localization and map database (SLAM), sensor fusion algorithm using motion sensors, user context and positioning system such as GNSSs, WiFi and BLE beacons, integrated personal navigation in the mixed indoor-outdoor environments, inertial navigation, and GPS System architecture experience The Lenovo Project Tango is the first device that actually is built with all the stuff that QUIK hired for? So its nice to see the device makers moving toward it now….again this 10 axis PDR algo stuff is the most compute intense on QUIKs slide deck, where the comparisons with MCUs will get interesting. There will be multiples so this device will spur others along to do the same, and we want that. QUIK has worked in silence on this for a yr or 2 and I look forward to reading more later this yr. Is it this device? It is of interest, but the In location alliance has a similar sort of effort that may gain traction also. Bottom line we want to see such complex algos on devices……..nice
this is one very differentiated device…. JAN 8, 2016 @ 04:41 PM 14,095 VIEWS Lenovo Will Launch A 3D Mapping Phone With Google Lenovo said the phone will be more on the premium end of Android phones but will cost less than $500. The relatively low price point is important, Meredith said. “We don’t want this to be a niche technology,” he said. “We want it to be accessible to a large audience.”The final industrial design hasn’t been decided on, but Lenovo is look at a half dozen different options. The depth sensing feature will be featured highly in marketing the device. “It will be a great phone on its own, but this feature will really be the key point of differentiation for this phone,” Meredith said.As the smartphone industry has matured, it’s become harder and harder for phone makers to stand out. Lenovo getting in first on adding this kind of feature gives it way of standing out from the crowd.Computer vision has become a very hot topic in technology lately. Chip makers Qualcomm and Intel have been pushing chipsets and components that feature these kinds of capabilities. Project Tango began in 2012 under Motorola’s Advanced Technologies and Projects, or ATAP (then owned by Google). ATAP stayed with Google (or now Alphabet) when the company sold Motorola off to Lenovo in 2014.Google and Lenovo have been working together for the past year on the phone and are announcing it now mostly to get developers interested in developing apps that make use of the feature.“To do apps that use these capabilities requires developers designing them from scratch,” said Johnny Lee, the head of the Project Tango project, in an interview. “It’s more than porting touch screen apps. We want to find partners that want to invest in this space, so that there’s enough run way to make great experiences with this when the device comes out.”Google and Lenovo are also starting an incubator for companies interested in working on Project Tango apps. There will be workshops and potential funding opportunities for the companies that participate. The best apps to make use of the Project Tango feature will come preloaded on the Lenovo phoneThis is an amazing device. It will have 10 axis PDR, the most complex algos on QUIKs slide.Sci Fi will be for real this summer. For me this represents AR- augmented reality, compared to VR virtual reality. I much prefer something like this compared to some goggles on my head.
One thing that bodes well….. here is a patent, Integrated WiFi/PDR/Smartphone Using an Unscented Kalman Filter Algorithm for 3D Indoor Localization. Chen G1, Meng X2, Wang Y3, Zhang Y4, Tian P5, Yang H6. Author information Abstract Because of the high calculation cost and poor performance of a traditional planar map when dealing with complicated indoor geographic information, a WiFi fingerprint indoor positioning system cannot be widely employed on a smartphone platform. By making full use of the hardware sensors embedded in the smartphone, this study proposes an integrated approach to a three-dimensional (3D) indoor positioning system. First, an improved K-means clustering method is adopted to reduce the fingerprint database retrieval time and enhance positioning efficiency. Next, with the mobile phone's acceleration sensor, a new step counting method based on auto-correlation analysis is proposed to achieve cell phone inertial navigation positioning. Furthermore, the integration of WiFi positioning with Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) obtains higher positional accuracy with the help of the Unscented Kalman Filter algorithm. Finally, a hybrid 3D positioning system based on Unity 3D, which can carry out real-time positioning for targets in 3D scenes, is designed for the fluent operation of mobile terminals.If you want it to know where you are you better not cut any corners, its 10 axis, its compute intense.Don't dummy it down.Start with accurate step counting, use that for the accurate PDR….If you talk to QUIK ask them what they think of this Lenovo Tango device?It is good no matter what to see such complex algos on a mobile device.
http://files.shareholder.com/downlo...hmark_Conference_Dec_10_2015_Presentation.pdf Immersive algorithms require more MIPSnone more than Indoor location-for now slide 12 the Eos and algos.. Indoor location and the MCU? Way in the red zone. Look at it. 10 mW into the red. we want this a lot? this is an important dot as it shows the adoption of this new sort of experience for a mobile device. It took A LOT of work to get it this far, and hopefully they are now ready to roll it out-will track it along. Its supports an very important bigger conclusion. WHat is that? Who would break with the rank and file me too Smartphones and put compute intense algos onto a real selling device? This is a mental model that there will be others- that we need the roadmap of the device to map to QUIKs strengths. THis is one of the best items I have read out of CES for what it says in the BIG pic. The apps they write for this will be very important and GOOG bet BIG on this some yrs ago.
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