The following month, Google plans to release 4000 prototype tablet computers that use cameras and sensors to map the environment. Tablets, which became part of the initiative Project Tango , will be equipped with 7-inch screen, infrared sensors depth, two rear cameras and advanced software allows you to make three-dimensional images. About this newspaper The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the plans of the American company.
Google Tango Project - a research project which aims to produce devices capable of learning and interaction with the environment. Smartphone, created as part of this project, was demonstrated in February. The device has received a 4-megapixel camera, a combined infrared and RGB-sensor and camera for creating three-dimensional images.
According to the source, the premier tablet can be held on the eve of the conference Google's I / O developer scheduled for June. A certain number of devices will be distributed between the developers. The same approach is used Google when introduced in February smartphone. Two copies of the devices were transferred to companies and developers, so they can use them to create their own applications.
One of the participants of the project Project Tango is NASA. The space agency plans to use the sensors in their Google spherical robot the size of a volleyball. This will allow machines to better navigate inside the International Space Station .