Augmented Reality: Making smartphones see

How Google’s Tango Augmented Reality platform is changing the way we interact with the world.

For the past six years, Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team has been hard at work on an augmented reality computing platform that they say, “could one day be as essential to your phone as GPS”. That platform is Tango and it’s finally here. And it’s about to change the way you and your smartphone interact with the world.