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other obstructions to find each other
in places like a museum. Simply hold
up your Project Tango phone, and
you’ll see who’s sharing their location
with you — a quick and easy way
to answer the question, “Where are
you?”
Here’s a step-by-step on
how it works
:
Picture yourself in a room of an
art museum. You’re holding a
smartphone loaded with the GuidiGO
app – the app displays a map of the
interior of the art museum with the
specific paintings listed out. You’re
interested in one of the paintings
on the map, so you click on that
painting to get more information and
directions to it. You’re presented with
the camera view of the room through
your phone’s screen – except it’s
actually a window into an augmented
world with blue directional dots
overlaid on the ground having formed
the path leading to the painting you
just picked. Once you arrive, GuidiGO
marker pops up on your screen letting
you know you made it, and you’re
presented with video content and
virtual annotations about the piece.
In the coming months, we’ll bring
you stories of partners working with
us to make this future a reality and
show you the potential of some our
gaming and utility apps and features.
We’re now working with thousands of
third party developers to build killer
apps for each of its three pillars and
to populate and enrich the Project
Tango app ecosystem.
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