Questions tagged [google-project-tango]

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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Google Project Tango: Why does my pointcloud get displayed only along x, y and z axis?

I am trying to edit the point cloud (stored in a FloatBuffer) in order to keep recorded points on the screen. However, when I display the points, they all lie on the x, y or z axis. I am using the example Point Cloud program from Google, and so all…
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What is the typical file size for a 3d render of a house?

I am wondering if anyone has any info on how large of a file a typical render is. For example, how large is a full 3d map for a house or what is the square foot to megabyte ratio?
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Merging Area Description Files for Project Tango

May I append one ADF to another? According to the docs: Depending on your settings, you can learn a new area or append to an existing ADF. Similar to the way Tango is able to learn more about an area that has been localized, I would like Tango to…
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How to render and retrieve image data on Google Project Tango?

I'd like to render the live image data on a GL surface (as shown in various Project Tango samples), and at the same time record (encode) it via a MediaCodec. (On an Android Lollipop device, I've accomplished that using the camera2 interface and…
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Accuracy and output from project tango

Can we import the output from Project tango to rivet software to analyse the existing building details. And also how accurate will be the output?
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Trouble receiving Pythagoras OTA

A few system updates ago I had trouble receiving the OTA for the Tango. It appears that a similar problem has occurred again. My Tango core has successfully updated to the Pythagoras revision, but my kernel version still reads build KOT49H.150505. …
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Disabling inertia tracker

Is there anyway to disable the "inertial motion sensors" for a program, so that my program does not track the devices acceleration? I've noticed that if a user suddenly moves and then suddenly stops with the device the motion tracking becomes…
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Using Project Tango Unity example projects

I have tried to use the Project Tango unity examples found here; https://github.com/googlesamples/tango-examples-unity with no success. I have never used Unity before, and have successfully completed the Codelab: Motion Tracking example fromt he…
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What method is implemented for drift compensation in the gyroscope?

I am trying to access the physical un-calibrated gyroscope sensor. But I am unable to. Since I can only access the calibrated one, I want to know what method is used for drift compensation in the gyroscope sensor used in the Tango Device.
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Positional tracking in Unity with Project Tango

I'm using this script from Google's Tango Unity Examples repository to control the movement of the camera in a Unity3D scene. It's meant to use the Tango's position and orientation tracking to move the camera correspondingly within Unity. However,…
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aidl is missing when importing an Tango example project in Android Studio

I downloaded the Tango SDK and examples for Java. After importing the Area Learning example into Android Studio, I went into the libs folder and added the SDK as a library. Then, I tried to build the project, but get the error "Error:Execution…
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Flashlight non responsive

I have found that the flashlight is not readily accessible to the camera app or any other app for that matter on the project tango tablet. Can someone please point me to the source file for the flashlight. A java api reference would be greatly…
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How is it possible to get tracked features from tango APIs used for motion tracking

As it is shown in Project Tango GTC Video, some local features are extracted and tracked for motion estimation that is then fused with accelerometer data. Since any developer may need to track features to develop his/her apps, I was wondering if…
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Project Tango Development Environment (java) problems

I am running into a problem when trying to build/run Project Tango sample programs provided on Google's Project Tango Developer website. Specifically my problem relates to the Quickstart Java provided in the Project Tango SDK API. Here's where I've…
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How to subscribe to UX Events

I'm currently using the UxExceptionListener.cs class to subscribe to Tango Exceptions in order to make sure I'm in a valid state when I record a frame. void Start () { UxExceptionListener UX = UxExceptionListener.GetInstance; …