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by netinstructions 3712 days ago
Lots of Project Tango + AR/VR presentations. I'm willing to bet the next Google/Nexus phones will have tech from Project Tango built in and become standard on future Android phones. Lots of apps/games could be built for it (and some that have been already built will debut during I/O). It could be one of those things that differentiates Androids from iPhones. Take a look at the 'Introducing Project Tango Area Learning' talk for May 18 for an example.

More info on Project Tango - https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/

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Project Tango sounds really cool. Dammit, traffic is going to be unbearable near Shoreline.
tango is not the only game in town

SVO: Fast Semi-Direct Monocular Visual Odometry 25 Feb 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YnIMfw6bJY

SVO is very interesting, but Tango is much more than that. Tango also has hardware for depth perception, something that SVO does not offer.

As a side-note, the guys at ETH Zurich are friggin' amazing and they do so much cool research. A big fan here!