New-Tech Europe | April 2016 | Digital edition

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?” 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. Here’s a step-by-step on how it works :

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