New-Tech Europe | April 2016 | Digital edition

How Project Tango Will Change the Way You Use Your Phone

Vice President and General Manager, Tablets, Lenovo

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Barcelona. It uses Project Tango’s augmented reality features to create your own personal tour guide – even showing you hidden details invisible to the naked eye. Simply hold up your phone, choose a work of art, and follow the directions superimposed on the floor, as if a real person were guiding you up to it. Once you are at the painting, hold up your phone and see virtual annotations on the painting that unlock new information about the painting. Now Glympse, the leader in real- time location sharing technology, makes it even easier to share your location with the people you care about. Using Project Tango’s AR technology, Glympse is enhancing its indoor capabilities. Users who share their location with each other can now see through walls, floors and

going to show youtwo new apps that put location and navigation abilities in action. With mobile technology taking a focus this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we’ve teamed up with Google to show the magic a Project Tango-enable phone can bring to your everyday life by two apps made by GuidiGO and Glympse. A New, Interactive Way to Go and Glympse into History Whether you’re discovering Barcelona’s jewels for the first time or just reveling in the city’s magic, GuidiGO’s Project Tango app brings its stories to life in a totally new, immersive way – on your mobile device. To see the power of this app in action, let’s go to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in

We’re getting excited. Project Tango is getting ready for

its close-up, and we’re working closely with Google to create the first consumer mobile device enabled with Project Tango. This summer, you’ll see us announce a new Project Tango-enabled smartphone that gives users a magic lens to experience the world in a new way. But first, you have to know What is Project Tango? And what can it truly do for you? At its essence, Project Tango gives your mobile device the ability to navigate the physical world, similarly to howwe do as humans. We see three important usage scenarios for Project Tango: location and navigation, gaming, and utility. Today, we’re

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