Google's Project Tango phone can turn any room into a game world

Google has announced Project Tango, a new phone with highly customized hardware and software designed to allow it to track its motion in full 3D, in real-time, as you hold it. Project Lead at Google's Advance Technology and Projects (ATAP) group Johnny Chung Lee said the phone's sensors make a "quarter million 3D measurements every second," updating its position and rotation, which is then used to create a 3D model of the environment it's in. Naturally, Google pointed out the gaming potential of...