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Lenovo Launches First Google Augmented Reality Phone
- FierceWireless, Wednesday, November 2, 2016 10:07 AM
Lenovo today launched the first phone to support Google’s Tango augmented reality technology. The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro sells for $500, is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 652 chip and runs Android Marshmallow. It includes four cameras including a 3D-sensing camera, and sensors that work in conjunction with Tango. Google unveiled Project Tango in February 2014 with the aim of using a prototype phone and the ingenuity of developers to use 3D scanning technology to build maps and models of physical locations. The company has touted a variety of use cases for its VR, from gaming – perhaps the most obvious application – to providing step-by-step navigation to a visually impaired user in unfamiliar places.
