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Google Project Tango is a hardware and software platform which brings 3D environmental sensing to Android devices. This tag should be used only on questions that are about Google's Project Tango features or Project Tango SDK technical issues. The tag [tango] should be used to ask about the library written in the "D" programming language.

Google Project Tango was deprecated on March 1st, 2018. Google is continuing AR development with ARCore (developers.google.com/ar), a new platform designed for building augmented reality apps for a broad range of devices without the requirement for specialized hardware.

Google Project Tango is a hardware and software platform which brings 3D environmental sensing to Android devices. It offers six degree of freedom motion tracking, area learning, and depth perception capabilities.

Project Tango technology gives a mobile device the ability to navigate the physical world similar to how we do as humans. Project Tango brings a new kind of spatial perception to the Android device platform by adding advanced computer vision, image processing, and special vision sensors.

Google renamed the product from "Project Tango" to simply "Tango" as the official product name on June 9, 2016.
Note that this tag should be used only on questions that are about Google's Project Tango features or Project Tango SDK technical issues. The tag should be used to ask about the library written in the "D" programming language.

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Future prospects for improvement of depth data on Project Tango tablet

I am interested in using the Project Tango tablet for 3D reconstruction using arbitrary point features. In the current SDK version, we seem to have access to the following data. A 1280 x 720 RGB image. A point cloud with 0-~10,000 points, depending…
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How to get Tango documentation?

I am a Chinese developer and I am studying graduate school. There is a project in the lab that needs to use tango. Google shut down the official website of tango and closed the developer community and documentation， because I was just getting…
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Is project-tango still usable for ar development?

I I am doing a small demo project on indoor navigation recently. I have chosen project tango whit Unity and I just bought the lenovo Phab 2 Pro. However I just found that tango has been abandoned by google... So I want to know should I countinue to…
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ARCore : is arcore-preview.apk (= Tango Core app) required to run a ARCore app?

I would like to develop an app using ARCore. I have several questions: is it required to install the arcore-preview.apk to be able to run this ARCore app ? Why does the arcore-preview.apk appears with the name "Tango Core" in the applications…
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Cascade effect with 3D GameObjects (Tango, Unity, Android)

I'm getting started with Unity to build Tango apps for Android. I have previous Unity and Android experience but I'm new to Tango. I followed these guides: https://developers.google.com/tango/apis/unity (+ /unity-setup) It didn't work with the…
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How to replace an AR object, positioned in space?

Following this tutorial, I can position an object in space. How can I replace the object with another one in the same position? I need to have a public function and assign it to a button, so when I press the button, the "Kitty" model being replaced…
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Deprecated AR Camera with wew Google Tango Unity SDK Version

It seems like google is pushing new releases of the Tango Unity SDK quite often. With the new version (Gankino), the "Tango AR Camera" is now deprecated. The point is that it is still used by all the examples. Do you know if Google has planned to…
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Reading YUV data with Unity and Tango

I am trying to read YUV data from the Tango camera in order to do some image analysis processing that unfortunately cannot be done using shaders. I manage to render the image but not to read the raw data from the texture. When I attempt to read, for…
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How to use experimental meshing API with Project Tango

I apologize in advance for my long post. My purpose is to create a meshing app for a Project Tango Yellowstone device to create a 3D map of building interiors. I intend to make use of the experimental meshing API added in recent versions of the…
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Project Tango Pose data producing drift while stationary AND in motion

I am creating an augmented reality app using the Project Tango. An essential part of this is accurate position tracking. Of course I understand that no inertial tracking system is perfect, but the Tango seems to have worked pretty well so…
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Intermittent loss of pose data in Leibniz release

I just updated my device to the latest (Leibniz) release and here are some observations/problems: 1) There are now prolonged (2-3s) intermittent periods in my App where the pose data is invalid. I assume the problem is in the driver, because the…
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What does an Area Description File (ADF) looks like?

I'm starting to work with the Google Tango Tablet, hopefully to create (basic) 2D / 3D maps from scanned areas. But first I would like to read as much about the Tango (sensors / API) as I can, in order to create a plan to be as time efficient as…
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How do I begin working on the Project Tango?

after a couple of weeks I have been unable to get the android set of tools to a functioning level with c++ before and have been given the opportunity of using a project tango, and though that sounds awesome and wondrous and would open a world of…
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New Tango device OTA not upgrading

New device unboxed a couple of days ago. Cannot use OTA to upgrade, says current software is up to date even though it is not. Without a current kernel I cannot download tango core, etc. So the device is basically non-functional (other than a…
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adb command doesn't list my device

On a Macbook Pro with Yosemite - After getting through the difficulties of getting Android SDK installed, I plug in the device, but it doesn't show. The command adb devices yields "List of devices attached" with nothing following. It's there on the…
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