There’s plenty of anticipation hanging in the air. Lenovo and Motorola will be dropping plenty of that during today’s keynote for the Lenovo Tech World ’16 conference today. We have on-the-ground coverage in San Francisco, but if you want to get the keynote directly from there (and you’re not there, we assume), this is the place to get it.If you’re in it for the
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Back in the golden age of candybar phones and clamshells, it was so much easier than today to choose a “daily driver.” Nobody talked about different mobile operating systems and platforms (because there weren’t any), you didn’t have quad or octa-core processors to concern yourself with, and lag was an issue limited to PC mIRC chats.It was an arguably simpler time, when essentially the entire mobile device-owning world either used a stylish Motorola Razr or robust and long-lasting Nokia 1000-series handheld. Androids and iPhones of course shortly entered the equation and began ...
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Looks like “modular” is in fact the buzzword of the year.At least, we can see a continuation of the trend if we trust VentureBeat‘s Evan Blass with some more information about this year’s Moto X (or Moto Xs?). This follows on from the renders we saw of the devices along with a potential DROID Turbo 3 from HellomotoHK earlier.“A person who was briefed on the plans” said ...
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While we’re likely only a week or so away from the Moto G4 and G4 Plus formal debut in India, parent company Lenovo is already looking forward to at least an additional pair of “major product announcements” scheduled for June 9 in San Francisco.Exactly one month from today, the second annual Lenovo ...
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Google Cardboard has opened the door on virtual reality for millions of smartphone users, but based on the recent hirings and shifting of resources Google’s been up to, it’s becoming clear that Cardboard’s only the start, and Google’s got some much larger VR ambitions; where will they take us? While Google hasn’t made any public proclamations of its future VR plans, evidence from at least one ...
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Why must all good things come to an end? More importantly, why must they end before we get to truly appreciate them? Case in point, the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It feels like it only started yesterday. Because, well, it technically did.But as always, the vast majority of high-profile exhibitors hurried to take the wraps off their shiny new gadgets in the days leading up to the ...
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Google’s reality-scanning Project Tango experiment was huge technological achievement right from the get-go, showing us what was possible when we combined the latest mobile hardware with 3D-mapping cameras. The Tango developer tablet’s sensors would assemble a 3D map of the room around you as quick and easily as regular phone can snap a 2D pic – and while it was all incredibly cool, it was still very much a work in progress, not quite ready for its commercial debut. Back in 2014, we learned ...
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Project Tango is an undertaking by Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), formerly a division of Motorola, with the “goal of giving mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion”. On the surface that sounds academic and boring, but start to peel away the layers and start looking at potential applications. and some amazing things come to mind.Currently Project Tango is just that, an internal project being worked on by a group inside Google. It doesn’t stop there. According to Google’s Johnny Lee, the ATAP-Project Tango Team ...
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A few months back Google revealed one of the latest ambitious projects from its Advanced Technology and Project group, the sensor-packed Project Tango. Tango’s designed to let a device accurately scan its surroundings and determine its location in 3D space, allowing it to form a complete 3D map of its environment. First Google made available an experimental Tango handset to interested developers, and we just saw it follow that up with a very high-end (not to mention expensive)
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This past winter, Google let us know about one of its latest advanced Android experiments, the reality-mapping Project Tango. Using some Kinect-like sensors, the handset’s designed to be able to scan its surroundings and create 3D maps. Google’s already made that hardware available to developers, but more recently we heard about a new spin on Project Tango, with word that Google was ...
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Like the idea of Project Tango, but would rather have it in tablet form? According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is developing tablets with “advanced vision technologies,” which makes us immediately think back to Project Tango’s 3-D capabilities and advanced sensors. 4,000 prototype units will be produced next month, reportedly, though these likely won’t be too close to ...
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One month ago, we learned about one of Google’s latest fantastically ambitious projects, using sensor-equipped smartphones to gather 3D data from the world around them, creating an internal map of their surroundings: Project Tango. It remains to be seen how this kind of tech might find a home in consumer-focused handsets, but for the moment Google is just interested in getting Tango out to developers and letting them see what they could pull off with this new tool ...
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A GPS receiver lets your smartphone know where it is. Accelerometers can detect motion. And for that brief period when smartphones were toying with autostereoscopic displays, they even had cameras capable of taking 3D shots. But despite all these technologies, phones have lacked a comprehensive understanding of their surroundings: what does the room they’re in look like? What’s their location within the larger building? Google is hard at work to enable phones to become better at mapping the world around them, and ...
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