“Earlier this year, Google unveiled ‘Project Tango,’ an experimental smartphone that incorporates 3D sensors to allow users to map indoor and outdoor environments,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “”
“Reports suggested that the smartphone’s 3D capabilities were powered by the Movidius Myriad 1 3D-sensing chip, but as it turns out, Project Tango is also powered by Apple technology,” Clover reports. “Alongside two Myriad 1 vision co-processors, Project Tango utilizes a PrimeSense Capri PS1200 3D imaging system-on-a-chip, technology that Apple acquired when it purchased PrimeSense late last year.”
“The unexpected PrimeSense chip was discovered in a teardown of the Project Tango smartphone by iFixit,” Clover reports. “Google’s Project Tango smartphone is one of the first mobile devices to use the diminutive Capri 3D sensor and it offers a glimpse at what Apple could possibly do with the technology in the future.”
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Project Tango without the butter is a sandy bitch.
GOOG down 4.11%. Oh, how sweet.
4%?? thats nothing. Had it been Apple it would have been at least 10%.
AND….how is it possible that they are using this? Purchased a license prior to Apple’s acquisition?