{"id":200,"date":"2014-02-20T21:50:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T21:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=200"},"modified":"2014-02-20T21:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T21:50:23","slug":"googles-project-tango-3d-scanning-in-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s &#8220;Project Tango&#8221; 3D scanning in a smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google never ceases to amaze me. 3 days ago I sent an email to my colleagues in architecture directing them to a 3D laser scanning tool. You hold a wand and it waves around on a spring. You wear a backpack where some of the equipment lives. They demonstrated using it in the Tower of Pisa.<\/p>\n<p>Today Google announces something similar that is the size of a cell phone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Say hello to Project Tango!\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qe10ExwzCqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/atap\/projecttango\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/atap\/projecttango\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Tango<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Johnny Lee is working for them now. I first heard of him back in 2008 when he used to do some pretty incredible stuff with Wiimote hacking.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/johnnylee.net\/projects\/wii\/\" href=\"http:\/\/johnnylee.net\/projects\/wii\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/johnnylee.net\/projects\/wii\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damn it Google! Why do you tantalize me with such cool stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google never ceases to amaze me. 3 days ago I sent an email to my colleagues in architecture directing them to a 3D laser scanning tool. You hold a wand and it waves around on a spring. You wear a backpack where some of the equipment lives. 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