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Holy farking shit! Project Tango will change your

sangkancil99 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:26:53 +0800

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Project Tango is a Google platform for giving phones and tablets a sense of space.

Right now, your phone can't do this. By this time next year, it probably will.

I love moments like these -- a fundamental technology is poised to change what people do every day and how they do it, yet the general public remains ignorant of what's coming.

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In many ways, Tango takes many of the core abilities that already exist in smartphones and greatly enhances them.

Project Tango enables a mobile device to not only map indoor spaces -- figure out where the floors, walls, ceilings and furniture are -- but to also know the location of the device within that space and its orientation.

Think of Tango as a platform that turns a smartphone into both a Kinect-like device and a Wii-like remote, both working at the same time. (That immediately suggests the use of your own smartphone as a universal peripheral for console video gaming.)

The sensors in your smartphone can already detect orientation based on movement. But these are subject to "drift" because they're estimates based on movement of the phone itself. Tango constantly orients the phone to its actual surroundings for better accuracy.

Beacons can track indoor location -- roughly. Your phone can tell how far away it is from a beacon in a known location. Tango upgrades that ability by not only providing indoor location where nobody bothered to place a beacon, but also more accurate indoor location. It can see the door and the stairs and the flower pot and figure out where it is inside a building. So if you were to "mark" a spot inside a room inside an app to be found by someone else, the next person could not only identify the general area but the exact spot. If a store's app wanted to provide product information for items on the shelf, it could provide it for the product directly in front of you, but not for the product one foot to the right.

A Tango-enabled smartphone or tablet can replace a tape measure.You could measure the size of a TV screen by tapping on one corner, tapping on the far diagonal corner, then getting the screen size. Or you could measure the size of anyone -- or any thing. Or you could use Tango with a drone to make sure the drone never, ever crashes into trees, buildings or people.

The range of applications that Tango enables is breathtaking. For starters, it makes possible the blending of mixed reality and virtual reality via the lower-cost Google Cardboard type of VR headsets. Imagine a VR game where the castle walls or forest trees were actually located where your home's walls and furniture are. So walking around virtual objects means you walk around actual objects.

tldr: kinect on your smartphone.

aaargh i can't wait!

Fakemalaysianews - gooding yo!

sangkancil99 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 06:53:00 +0800

http://fakemalaysianews.com

Like malaysia's theonion.

Sri Lanka got free Internet from Google

sangkancil99 — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:03:52 +0800

Google's Project Loon in Sri Lanka

Pulut Adventure on Steam..

sangkancil99 — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:12:37 +0800

Pulut Adventure

Malaysian game ah?

Opinion on Cycom gaming rig

sangkancil99 — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:58:55 +0800

Hi guys

Would like your opinion on the following gaming rig for RM2399

Intel Core I3-4150
Gigabyte H97N Wifi Board
Kingston 8GB DDR3 1.6Ghz Ram
WD 1 TB 3.5" Sata HDD
24 X DVDRW
Gigabyte GTX750 1GB DDR5 128Bit Vga Card
Cooler Master Elite 130
Silverstone 500W 80Plus PSU
Microsoft Window 8 64Bit

Sold by Cycom at Lazada. Link as follows:
Cycom @ Lazada

Any good? Worth the money? Or are there better alternatives.

Appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.

Play-asia tel no- lousy service

sangkancil99 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:51:44 +0800

hi

Anyone has Play-asia's tel no?

Bought XBOX LIVE points off them via digital download and found out later it's out of stock. Sure didn't say so on their website.

This feels like fraud and I want to call them to complain and demand a refund.

BTW their customer service sucks!

Thanks in advance...

Lord of the Rings: Conquest

sangkancil99 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:03:54 +0800

Hi everyone

Just want to know if anyone here is playing Lord of the Rings Conquest online? It's a fun game and am puzzled why it's getting trashed by reviewers. Most of the servers are populated by US and European players.

Just want to get a sense of the LOTR community here in Malaysia/SG.

Thanks.
sangkancil99