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are you ready recording yeah it's already recorded are you recording alright cool hopefully there's AA battery to last alright well it's josh of a gar from android authority what's going on everybody and I'm here with lon when and Chris Carlin of course the three of us are here at Google i/o and we all just got out of right behind us over here in the Hydra stage yes that's an unfortunate name for stage but the Hydra stage we watched the project tango session what's new in project tango now hopefully you guys can hear us just fine the wind is blowing a little bit and behind the camera is Android Pro Audio playing some in just just terrible dubstep right now I'm it's good I'm I'm losing my mind right now I'm just saying but anyway imma dance I wanted to just go ahead and just jump into it like tango is essentially to you okay two years ago if I'm fortunate enough to find and download the clip you're probably seeing some footage of a project tango demo I did two years ago where they used with the same device the tablet that had all of the different sensors and you used it in order to kill zombies from a gunship a zombie gunship and you learn no buttons you just move around with the tablet and that's how you kill all of these zombies so that was the first taste of tango I ever had and what I didn't realize and I guess we can make the discussion a bit a part of this is that project tango back then was essentially I'm realizing the foundation for what we're going to see in AR and VR yeah I don't know how you guys felt about what did you guys think of the session that we were in with project tango I I thought it was pretty awesome to be honest because I've only seen one other project tango demo before and it wasn't super impressive they didn't show too much and I really enjoyed this one because they showed not only practical uses like being able to place furniture and your home to see if it fits or see how it looks but they also showed a lot of the fun stuff that you can do like the whole thing with the dinosaurs that they had there and the shooting game that they showed so that all of that was really cool and I I'll be perfectly honest don't really follow project tango too closely I follow it enough to understand works so a lot of this was still pretty new to me and I was pretty blown away by it it's really cool and it seems like the pretty much what you can do with it is pretty just pretty limitless and it's just going to be bound to your own imagination as to what you can do with project tango so I think that developers can really take this to to a lot of different places so it's going to be really cool well I mean it's not very long now until the first project tango phone is out with Lenovo next month and it's great like there's really a lot of polish going on now with I mean it's not it's not proof of concept kind of stuff anymore it's it's very much getting to the pointy end of the stick you know there's some really really great stuff like the um there was a demo just before where the area on the stage was mapped and then slowly overlaid with with like wireframe animals and then it will texture mapping of an outdoor scene and and and it was great and then this portal appears and it's like a one-way mirror then through this portal you see like the real world you see you see the audience sitting out there pretty cool stuff it's almost refreshing at Google i/o to actually see the product being used right in front of you rather than just being told oh yeah and you'll see it later on you know and to all of our viewers and our listeners and our readers and whatnot if you don't really know what project tango is we've done a lot of coverage on it but just to give a quick synopsis here synopsis rather project tango is depth and camera and spatial recognition now products are going to be coming out with all of the different sensors including a depth sensor a field sensor the camera will be used and all of them are used in conjunction to give you basically the easiest way of scanning what is around you and that could have a lot of different applications like they said already there are a couple applications where you could use tools in order to virtualize different parts of the world so that you can see and visualize what it is that you want to create in that world AR style augmented reality style but there's also spatial learning as well so tango devices will will learn the spaces that you take them through so the more the more you take your device around the world the more it understands the spaces that you go to so it can actually lead you through supermarkets and it can map you know the interior of your home and things like that it's it's it's really getting kind of cool after saying and for gaming it's also it has a VR component to it also you're not necessarily putting on a headset for it but the tablet will know where it is so like that one demo where you put it on a gun and you could actually go around that's exactly what you do in a VR headset except you don't need a VR headset yeah which is pretty crazy yeah that was actually really sweet i was one of my favorite demos that they showed and that kind of makes me look forward to the project tango think that were going to do later on tonight so yeah it should be a lot of fun there's a demo you'll see a whole video on that if we're allowed to film it that is and the best part about it is that these these sensors if they're available in devices then they will be compatible with basically these apps that are just going to be put on the Play Store so project tango is not just a thing that companies and corporations and construction management areas and all that stuff it's not something that just corporations and companies will use it's something that the consumer will be able to use because the hope is while we might have daydream enabled phones we might have tango enabled phones yeah and they talked about developers developing tango specific apps for Android in as well that there'll be a bunch of API is available in Android and that will unlock certain potential within there within they are content that will only be available for Android end devices so we wanted to make sure to give you guys just a brief glimpse I have a bunch of clips that you probably already been seeing inside of the session there but the other thing we want to say is that they even said it during the session is that they've had this tablet on the google play store that is project tango enabled it's odd price of five hundred and two dollars it's a little bit this a little bit odd but an actual phone with all these sensors will be coming out a much smaller mobile device and we're not going to be able to see it but i will be able to see it we want we're not seeing you here at Google i/o because it'll be at lenovo tech world and that's going to be very soon on which myself and John Velasco we're going to be going to so really exciting that products are actually going to come out very soon with this kind of technology and they even showed a little bit of a teaser there was a bit of a silhouette of the actual device which looked kind of sleep yeah it looked a little sleek well yeah that should pretty much do it we're just doing a quick reaction to this session that we did hopefully you watch the other reaction that these two did earlier today and you can see what it's like to be here at Google i/o don't forget to check out the rest of our coverage at Google i/o including our look at the keynotes a reaction to that the vlogs I've been putting out and also there's even a 360 video that I just released so you can actually experience what the keynote was like it's almost as if you're sitting right next to us during Google's IO keynote of 2016 so keep between two android authority for even more because we are your source for all things google i/o