Google’s Project Tango, the NVIDIA Tegra K1 powered tablet that is used to track and map 3D environments to “give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion,” showed up on Google Play last night. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), you can’t buy it just yet. However, there are listings for both black and white models, so we get the feeling that someone will be able to buy it soon.
Of course, these tablets aren’t meant for you and I, unless you happen to be a developer. As is noted on the Play listings, this is a “development kit” that also comes without warranties or options to return for refunds. If you buy Project Tango, you own Project Tango.
A price isn’t listed for us, but at least one person is seeing a $1024 price tag when viewing the device. +Ryan Warner mentions that he signed up to be one of the first in line to buy Project Tango when he attended Google I/O, so they may have whitelisted his account, which is why he is able to see a price.
As a recap, Project Tango is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, 4GB RAM, 7-inch HD IPS display (1920×1200), 128GB on-board storage, 4960mAh battery, and runs Android 4.4.2 (not a typo). It also features a multi-camera setup on its backside to do all of the previously mentioned 3D environment rendering.
Play Links: Project Tango (black) | Project Tango (white)
So if you get one that’s DOA, you can’t exchange/return it? That’s kind of lame.
But will it get Lollipop?
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I was just wishing I had one of these a couple days ago to quickly map and measure an old building for an architecture class.
anddd what is the point of this thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe10ExwzCqk
Pretty awesome, if you ask me.
No warranty is not awesome though.
It isn’t meant for consumers. It is meant for developers, and not in the way a Nexus is meant for developers.
Interesting video, but was that a phone attached to a Roomba? Good thinking, Google! Clean the office while 3D mapping it at the same time!
3D mapping technology, can be used for a lot of things, especially in gaming, or if Fire Departments had this for search and rescue of already 3D mapped buildings instead of blue prints to use.
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Kinda odd it is sold as is, so maybe they are used and decided not to do this project anymore. Maybe they just want to get rid of them.
Doubtful. I would hazard a guess that this is supposed to be only for developers and they don’t have a lot of support lined up for it at this time, so they are trying to discourage the average consumer from buying it.
very small italics text at the bottom. Maybe some support will come with it. maybe?
For issues with faulty hardware, please contact us at project-tango-hardware-support@google.com.
Hopefully it works better than the Peanut.
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