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by Cyph0n 3707 days ago
Sorry, but what's ATAP?
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Think Google X, but with 2 year instead of 10 year technologies.

example: https://www.google.com/atap/project-soli/

That looks incredible. Such a lovely video particularly when you see the fourier transform of a hand moving in space!
I hope this project will result in such products on the consumer market.
Very strange you were downvoted. It's Google's 'Advanced Technology and Projects' group. Incubator run by an ex-DARPA guy. Projects are given two years.
Regina Dugan now works for Facebook.
Hmm. I didn't know about her. It mentions strategic investments in INFOSEC and many of my good papers are DARPA funded. I wonder if there's a list of what hardware/software architectures were funded under her time there. It's the lower-level people that decide on the projects that I'm aware of but the Director usually sets the culture and priorities with significant effects.
Ah sorry my mistake.
I'm more interested in Project Vault, which seems dead since the project leader quit Google soon after he announced it:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/29/googles-project-vault-is-a-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qrQzn8uBo

Because the question is literally answered by the first half a dozen results from any search engine?