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Google's Project Tango is shutting down because ARCore is already here
Google said today that it'll be shutting down Project Tango next year, on March 1st. Project Tango was an early effort from Google to bring augmented reality to phones, but it never really panned out. The system was introduced in 2014 and made it into developer kits and even a couple consumer devices as recently as last year.
But those devices required special sensors. And in the meantime, Google (and competitors, like Apple) figured out ways to bring AR features to phones with just the hardware that's already on board. Google introduced a new augmented reality system, known as ARCore, in late August. It just brought that system to the Pixel and Pixel 2 in the form of some augmented reality stickers — immediately opening AR features to more people than Tango is likely to have reached in its lifetime.
Also at Ars Technica, TechCrunch.
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(Score: 2) by inertnet on Tuesday December 19 2017, @12:14PM
For a fraction of a second I thought I had read that Google would be shutting down Twitter. Maybe because of all the fake news? But disappointment followed, it's just a case of wishful thinking.
Wouldn't it be really funny if they'd start blocking each other, in their frantic efforts to shut down half the internet. Facebook should join that party too.