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I'm Jessica's all court for CNET here at Qualcomm's headquarters in San Diego California we're here at a very special lab this is where Qualcomm tests out some of the new technology that it's going to put in smartphones and tablets specifically in the camera department we want to augment the sensing capabilities the vision capabilities add establish half you can actually take the environments in a three dimensional way so instead of producing a two-dimensional picture you can produce a three-dimensional 3d model of what you're looking at as I move you will see the portions of the BU are covered by this bluish tint and as I keep moving this bluish tint covered more portion of the scene it's like I'm making a video detail of the environment that I want to capture but in this case instead of being just a video we are actually coming up with a three-dimensional model of what we are looking at everything you see on the 3d model is physically accurate you can use different applications which are yet to be developed to go and measure the things that are inside your picture on this one the first layer of processing of the information tried to classify what you are looking at so instead of trying to do a 3d reconstruction of the whole environment is simplifying the environment some uses that we are thinking about the technologies actually in robotics this flat surface is actually horizontal so I can actually walk over and these things are obstacles or objects over my flat surfaces so I can try to go around them or even interact with them I can try to grab them a lot of different levels of testing it can be done with with a robot it came my phone track when I moved horizontally of vertical or it rotates the main characteristics our robot is repairability we can say what would move five millimeters and the computer vision engine to tell us I move five millimeters computer vision is sort of fun you technology it's been around for years but it's up to today that is been able to work on mobile devices its mobile devices are is incredibly powerful nowadays