My First Experience with Google Tango
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,322 words · ~6 min read
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Honestly, I'm not even sure where to start with this one today. So, you
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probably saw our last sponsored video from Lenovo on the yoga book. If you
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didn't, it's right around there. But, uh, here we
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go. Okay, so let's clear some space.
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Raor core, you're out. MacBook Pro, you're
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out. Moneycat. Money cat's in. So, Fab 2 Pro.
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What is this thing? It's a phone. It's a tablet. It's a fabt. It's right in the
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name. So, it's got a Snapdragon
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processor, a static cling screen covered thingaboo. It's got
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64 gigs of storage. It's got uh AC
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Wi-Fi. It's got a 4,50 milliamp battery.
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It's got a massive 1440 screen and Oh,
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look at that. Would you look at that?
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Now, would you look at
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that? It's a headphone jack, right? But
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moving around to the back, this is where we get into the really interesting
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stuff. So, right here is a 16 megapixel camera. 16 megapixels RGB, which
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basically just means it's a camera, but no, no, there's other stuff. So, this
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guy right here is a depth camera. This
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is a flash. So, the flash is normal, too. These are the normal parts. Then,
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there's a fisheye camera and a fingerprint. Okay. A lot of phones have
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those, too. Okay. So, every other thing back here is unusual. Let's go ahead and
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get this baby fired up. Wow, that is a really fast fingerprint sensor. It is
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actually registering them that fast. Discover Tango. An introduction to the
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Tango
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experience. Tango. That must be an OLED display.
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Actually, I can't tell. Oh crap. IPS.
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Oh, wow. Those are really deep blacks. Whoa. Check this out.
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So the idea is that it uses a combination of the sensors and
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cameras to figure out spatially where
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Why is there like a goat or something in my office?
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It's not a deer. I don't know what it is.
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Okay, now I'm really confused. These are
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like wolf deer raccoon things.
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Whoa, look at him go. Oh, he stopped.
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What a loser. Loser.
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Wrong. Oh, whoa. That's like a window into the like real world
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again. Whoa. And we're back to the real world. Okay, so back to the cameras
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again. Why do they need all these cameras and sensors for Google Tango?
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Well, they need sensors that are capable of motion tracking. So, this is
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obviously to help the device understand its orientation in physical space. They
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need multiple cameras that allow Tango to recognize the world around the device
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by utilizing visual cues. This helps to self-correct for errors in the motion
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tracking. And it needs the depth sensor
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that allows Tango enabled devices, right now this is the only one, of course, to
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understand the shape of the world around it. So that way you can interact with
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the world around you in all new ways utilizing the virtual world created by
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Tango. So uh now that we've got that all
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sorted out, let's go try it, shall we? So the idea is that you trash the
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castle.
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Okay, fantastic.
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Now, what happens? That's it. I only get one
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shot. I mean, that's okay. I got three stars, I guess. But I want to go see it.
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Check that out. That's what you can't do in Angry
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Birds. Get in close and inspect the
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havoc you've caused. Oh my goodness. There's so many dead people in that
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castle. You just can't see it cuz you don't have the angle for it. But trust
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me, there's lots of dead people on the It's actually a
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savage, savagely realistic
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game. Size
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matters. Bigger pieces are harder to knock over than smaller ones. All right,
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I'm too close to the damn island. You're too close to me. Okay, this time I'm
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going to strategically
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attack that spot right there. But I'm going to pull it back harder because I
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think that was my problem last time. Oh, I'm sitting in the garbage can. This is
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fine. Everything about what's going on right now is
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fine. What? Hey, where'd you go? Oh. Oh,
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look at him. There he goes. Can I pet it? I actually don't know. Oh, yes. I
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think so. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I got you. Whoa. There we go. Oh. Oh, yeah. We got
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a huge dog. Giant puppy. His eyes are so soulless and
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empty. Ah, he's coming for us.
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Okay, so new idea. Let's go on the green screen and try the dinos among
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us. An experiment in augmented reality
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from the American Museum of National History. National
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Natural. That's not a dino. That's a
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penguin. Can you stop poking me with the camera?
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Jeez. Okay. Velociraptor.
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Oh, that's not nearly as big as I thought it
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would be. No, no, no, no. That's what like real raptors are like. They were
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like turkeys. Really? Yeah. So, they're not like
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Jurassic Park. I mean, there is a dinosaur like that, but it wasn't the
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Velociraptor. Interesting. You know, I've heard about this this whole thing
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where like there's speculation that dinosaurs were much more closely related
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to birds and probably had feathers versus being like reptiles with scaly
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skin like we thought they were when we were kids. Mind you, when I was a kid,
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we thought Brontosaurus was a thing. So, that's how out of touch my generation
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is. Okay, do
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something. Oh, can I make it bigger?
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Velociraptor was a fierce predator. probably had large
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wings.
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Interesting. That's really
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cool. I'm just going to put all the dinosaurs
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around. We're just going to have an office full of dinosaurs. Oh, that's
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cool. It still remembers where I put Velociraptor. That is really cool. Here,
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let's place our last one. Oh, wow. That one's
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big. Hey,
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bud. See? So, there's our uh kadypter,
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our archopterix, and our velociraptor, and
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our
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ornithamus. Oh, I can move. Oh, he put his head down. There he
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is. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. So, let's try
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a game. This is sure a lot less work than uh dominoes when I was a kid. I
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wonder how many dominoes you can
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draw. Oh, how fast can you
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go? Okay, step back.
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Oh, that's not what I meant to do. Oh no, they're going to hit each
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other. We're going to have a domino
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collision. Oh, fail. That's pretty cool
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though, actually. So, tango then. Now,
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I've seen this kind of tech before. I've seen like take a picture and have
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dinosaurs appear in it or whatever the case may be. But it's pretty clear that
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thanks to the additional hardware, the
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whole thing does work better on this. Now, with that said, everything you guys
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saw today was either obviously pretty early stages or clearly
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labeled as an experimental project. So,
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what I want to know from you then is what do you see in terms of the
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potential future for this? Let us know in the comments below. We will be
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reading them. So, thanks again then to Lenovo for sponsoring this video and for
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sending us the Fab 2 Pro. If all this augmented reality looked pretty cool to
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you, you can actually get one of your own. We'll have that linked in the video description. And I think that pretty
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much wraps it up. Thanks again for watching, guys. Don't forget to subscribe and all that good stuff. I
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will see you again next time, but maybe
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in augmented reality.