Project Tango is the future of Google's advanced smartphone efforts

Developers can apply to recieve one of 200 prototype units to build software for

Google ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects), a small group of engineers inside the company dedicated to knew and exciting projects, has announced its latest effort in the smartphone space — Project Tango. ATAP has been working with devices that leverage dozens of different sensors to monitor everything around you in brilliant 3D imagery.

"The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion."

The end result is a 5-inch phone development prototype that takes advantage of their latest technologies — multiple cameras to monitor space, dozens of sensors to pinpoint the device's location and software that maps the world around it.

Starting today, developers will have the opportunity to apply and receive a Project Tango development phone so that they can begin building software that takes advantage of the sensors and capabilities of the device.

Source: Google

source: androidcentral