Get Started with Project Tango
Project Tango is a platform that uses computer vision to give devices the ability to understand their position relative to the world around them. It’s just like how you use your eyes to find your way to a room, to know where in the room you are, and know where the floor, the walls, and objects around you are. These physical relationships are an essential part of how we move through our daily lives. We want to give mobile devices this kind of understanding.Core Technologies
Motion Tracking
Motion tracking allows a device to understand position and orientation using Project Tango's custom sensors. This gives you real-time information about the 3D motion of the device.
Area Learning
Project Tango devices can use visual cues to help recognize the world around them. They can self-correct errors in motion tracking and relocalize in areas they've seen before.
Depth Perception
Depth sensors can tell you the shape of the world around you. Understanding depth lets your virtual world interact with the real world in new ways.
Meet our APIs
Unity SDK
The Unity SDK is great for making games and other programs requiring 3D visualization if you don't already have an existing or preferred rendering engine. We provide scripts, components, prefabs, and demo programs in our Unity packages.
Java API
The Java API is is ideal for integrating Project Tango functionality into applications built with the standard Android Java APIs. Developers who are already familiar with the Android Java development environment should be able to easily adjust.
C API
Developers working with the Android NDK should use the C API, which enables flexibility on the native level. Use the C API if you have your own visualization engine to display Tango's 3D capabilities, or want to access the system-level pose and depth information directly.
Get a development kit
The Project Tango tablet development kit is an Android device with a wide-angle camera, a depth sensing camera, accurate sensor timestamping, and a software stack that exposes motion tracking, area learning and depth sensing to application developers. Thousands of developers have purchased these developer kits to create experiences to explore physical space around the user. Purchase one today!
Note: This device is currently only available in select countries.